Is it intentional that comments aren't searched?

Eric Osman

 

I have just discovered when comparing Jira's two ways of doing searching, that one way finds text that matches in comments and the other misses them.

 Is this difference intentional?

Here's a picture showing the two ways of doing searching:

The magnifier way misses comments, and the contains-text way catches comments.

 

Shwetha Suvarna

Hi Eric,

The magnifier way of search focuses on searching an issue key, summary or description.

This design is intentional to keep the search results minimal.

 

I hope this helps. Do let me know if you have further queries.

 

Best regards,

Shwetha