Searching all epics in a project does not return everything

[samuel.tan]

When I search with the following JQL:

project = 'ABC' and issuetype = 'epic'

It does not return all the epics under the project. In fact, it fails to return quite a lot of them. Could not find a reason based on epic status.

JIRA search in general sucks - reason I was trying the above was because simply searching for the title of the epic failed, coming back with "no issues were found to match your search"

[John Funk]

Hi Samuel - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Are you just looking for the actual Epics? Or are you also wanting the issues that are attached to the Epics? 

Where are you searching? 

[samuel.tan]

Just the epics.

[John Funk]

Can you list some of the Epics that are not being returned? 

[samuel.tan]

Hi John,

Thanks for responding. Not sure what changed, but now all the epics are showing correctly. Before, it would only show one page and was missing epics I knew existed because I was working on them.

[Andrew Kendris]

@samuel.tan could you provide a bit more context around what you are looking for? The JQL you shared would produce the results of just the issue type "epic" for a single project.  

[samuel.tan]

It would return a whole bunch of epics, but not ALL of the epics. I thought it may be status dependent (e.g. some epics are closed) but that is not so. I could not find a link between why some epics are returned and others are ignored.