JIRA text-search treating 'accessible' and 'accessibility' as deriviatives of 'access'

Alex Taylor

One of my users just reported this one. He was trying to do a simple-mode search for all issues which contain the word "accessibility" and found that most of the results did not in fact contain this word. Instead they contain the word "access". After a bit more experimentation I discovered that entering "accessible" does the same thing. We cannot find a workaround - even enclosing the word in quote-marks doesn't help.

Does JIRA seriously think that these three words are synonyms?!

Searching for "accesses" also produces these results, although fortunately "accessor" is treated as being different.

Janet Albion

Hi Alex,

JIRA does not search the issue directly in the database as this is very expensive. It will scan the index directory for matching parameter .

In general JIRA use Lucene to tokenise the word that is stored in the index directory. You can use Luke to see the action

http://www.getopt.org/luke/

I haven't check how the "accessibility" is being tokenise in JIRA, but you may try it to understand it further. But, I believe that Lucene "Stem" the words.