Unable to group AND/OR when editing board queries

[LoganM]

Found same issue at: 

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-39107

It is supposed to be fixed, but it isn't for board query editor... 

[Carlos Garcia Navarro · Accepted solution]

Hi @LoganM ,

Welcome to the Community! Do you see that the results of the query are different after saving it? By reading the description and comments in the ticket, it seems that the resolution was that Jira normalizes the query but the it should work fine. From the developer assigned to it:

After investigating this issue it turns out that the documentation is wrong, not actual implementation in JIRA. This means that operator precedence is taken into account when evaluating JQL queries.

JIRA looses inner parentheses because before executing your query it normalizes it. This results in things like "and" being changed to "AND" and parentheses being put in place only where they are essential to override operator precedence. However resulting query is always logical equivalent of the provided one and should behave the same.

We are currently working on updating the documentation accordingly.

[LoganM]

As far as I know:

a OR ((b OR c) AND d)

and

a OR b OR c AND d

aren't equivalent due to operator precedence.

[LoganM]

Ok, give it a try and I may have messed with parentheses during my tests.

It is nicely normalized to:

a OR (b OR c) AND d