JQL Filter for all issues that have updated description in last 7 days

[David Sanchez]

I have a kanban board and I'm trying to filter on only items which a description field that's been updated in the last 7 days. I cannot for the life of me figure this out. 

[Somasundaram_ Ravishankar]

Hi @David Sanchez  How did you go about solving this requirement ?

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @David Sanchez -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You cannot do that with out-of-the-box Jira JQL filters.  There are WAS and CHANGED operators, but they do not work with the description field. The marketplace addons for JQL might support this, but I haven't tried your use case before.

How often do you need to do this and for how many issues?

• Just a few issues and infrequently: check the issue histories manually
• Often and for many issues:
  • Investigate marketplace addons, or
  • Going forward, you could create a work-around using a custom field and an automation rule to save the date/time whenever the description is changed.  You could then query that in the future.

Best regards,
Bill