How to search for issues someone's been tagged in?

[Shirley He]

Trying to do vacation coverage. Would like a query to search for issues that a user is tagged in the comments? Preferably able to set a date? 

in addition is there a query that you can search for a specific user and what tickets they are watching? 

Thank you

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Shirley He -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You can get close to both of those types of queries with JQL, and you may learn more about JQL here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/advanced-searching-939938733.html

For example, you can check if someone was mentioned in comments, but checking the timeframe is not possible with out-of-the-box JQL.  Instead you would need to look at the issues, or investigate a marketplace addon for JQL.

comment ~ "the user's account id"

Finding issues with a watcher can be done like this:

watcher IN ("the username")

Kind regards,
Bill

[Shirley He]

Thank you so much Bill! That helps us out a lot.