How to track tickets moved from/into project ?

Question

I have a project and I need to track which tickets are moved out of it during the week for example.

There is no 'was in' operator for PROJECT field.

The same question is  how to track tickets which currently have my project but had another one week ago.

I spend a lot of time looking for this functionality in JQL.

Thanks for any help.

leyvaen.taylor · Answer

A possible solution is to set the initial status of an Issue created in the first project from "Backlog" to something specific like "Projectx backlog" by amending the workflow.

Then you can use the JQL: Status was "Projectx backlog".

In that way, whereever the ticket gets moved to, you can still identify the first Project the ticket was in.

Another way of doing this could be to use the JQL: reporter in membersOf("group")

That would allow you to see all tickets raised by members of a particular group.

A third way could be to have an automation rule that monitors when an Issue is moved from one Project to another, have a custom field called "Original Issue Key" and optionally a condition that checks whether the field is empty.

Then an action Edit field: Original Issue Key with the value:

This copies the Issue key to that field and then you can search on it in JQL using a wildcard such as:

Original Issue Key[Short text]" ~ "KEY-*"

Sergey Kryazhev · Answer

I took a look into the DB , looks like it is possible to get this info using tricky, having many JOINs SQL. There are 3 tables containing necessary data:  changegroup, changeitem and jiraissue.

Still would like to avoid direct access to DB (thanks for comment Nic)

Does anyone had experience with this plugin https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.j-tricks.jql-plugin ?

movedIssues() and recentProjects() functions.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

I'd avoid reading the database - there's good reasons it's abstracted.

But if you happened to read the tables changeitem (for the record "key") and changegroup (for issue id, author, and date/time) you'll find what you need.