JQL Query

[Erica Dover]

How do you write a JQL query to filter a certain task to show in the Kanban board?

For example: I want to filter where the issue type is task, and the description contains the task name. 

I cannot find the field for the task name. 

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi @Erica Dover,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

In order to filter on issue type and description the JQL would look something like this:

issuetype = task AND description ~ "\"something in the description\""

The "\" ... \"" indicate that you are searching for that specific phrase, you can remove it and just use "" but your search result would be different since it would try and find issues with just parts of the phrase in it.

[Erica Dover]

Thank you, that did the trick! 

How could I also write the JQL to also include the subtasks that are associated with the particular task?

Thanks!