How to report on custom fields in JQL?

[Jacek Darlinski]

Is there any way to report on custom fields in a next-gen project in JQL?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, but this is because JQL does not do reports.  JQL finds issues that match it and returns a list of those issues.  Reports use those lists and extract data from the issues related to what they're trying to report on.

So what you need to look at is what you want to "report"?  Given a pile of issues, what do you want to see about them?

[Jacek Darlinski]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-  Sorry, let me clarify the question then: Can I query next-gen custom fields in JQL? I want to be able to return the custom fields in the output, as well as apply conditions using those fields.

Thanks! 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Sorry - I'm at an airport after Summit (which is 4 days talking and walking, with added beer).   I'm a bit tired and didn't think to expand on a partial guess as to what you might need

JQL does not care what the custom fields are used for, only that that there is data in the fields and that they have a "searcher" (all fields have one by default, it's a pretty obscure thing to remove a searcher from a field completely - useful in some places, so we can, but you won't run into those cases often!).

Having said that, some Next-gen fields are not really fields and hence don't get searched by JQL.  Are there any in particular you are searching on?