Filtering for all stories with comments

[marianne doventry]

I am looking for a quick way to see all the stories in my Backlog that have been commented on by anyone.

[Matt Parks · Accepted solution]

Out of the box, I'm not aware of a way to this but, if you have the Scriptrunner plugin, you can add the following JQL to your query that shows the work items in your backlog:

issuefunction in hasComments()

It's also possible to put parameters inside the parentheses to only look for issues that have a particular number of comments or at least a certain number of comments.

[Trudy Claspill]

I concur with this.

Natively the only filter option for Comments is to filter them by the comment content with the "~" operator, and there is not a JQL method to use that operator to find items where the text field being evaluated contains anything.

[Greg Harder]

If this is true, then why does the Atlassian documentation suggest we can?

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-service-management-cloud/docs/jql-fields/#Comment

[Trudy Claspill]

@Greg Harder 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

What you have referenced does not indicate that issues can be filtered based on "commented on by anyone".

The reference says:

"Search for work items that have a comment that contains particular text"

You would have to provide the Comment text content for which you want to search. That would get you issues that contain that text in the Comment. That is not the same as getting issues "commented on by anyone" regardless of the content of the Comment.