Why search doesn't look into card contents? Why?

sneaky4oe

Switching to jira after trello feels like a huge downgrade.

One of many stupid issues I faced is that it doesn't search inside the card - it can search for text only in title. Why is there even a search field if I can just use ctrl+F at the same page to look through titles? I need to be able to look for keywords inside the ticket too.

 

Top part of the image - empty search results for an ID
Bottom part - the same board with an open ticket that has this ID in text.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

It's because Jira has a lot more power than Trello, with ranges of different (and differentiated, rather than just a blob of text) data, which has a downside that you have to be a bit more "clever" with the searches to cover all the places you might mean.

The quick search field applies a guess at what you might mean, and tries to be fast by focussing on the summaries as those are usually where the most useful human description is.

If a quick search doesn't find something, go to the standard or advanced search.  In the advanced search "text ~ <something>" searches all text-like fields.