Brackets removed after saving Query Filter

Swaroop Rao

I'm trying to use a JQL Query Filter to display subtasks for specific users in my Scrum Board. For tasks I want to look at the 'Assignee' field but for stories, I want to refer to the 'QA' field (which is a custom field). So, I'm creating a query like:

project = DEV AND ((type = Story AND QA = user1) OR (type in (Defect, Development, QA, Sub-task) AND assignee = user1)).

I save the query and I see some results but they don't look right so I try to go back to the query filter and see the query. I see that it has been changed to:

project = DEV AND (type = Story AND QA = user1 OR type in (Defect, Development, QA, Sub-task) AND assignee = user1)

You will notice that JIRA has removed one pair of outer brackets. So, a query like ((A AND OR (C AND D)) is being changed to A AND B OR C AND D. I'll have to write out the truth table to confirm but I believe that these two queries will not produce the same results. Can somebody from Atlassian please review this and respond?

Warren_mz9b4z

Hi @Swaroop Rao 

If you want someone from Atlassian to review this, you may need to raise a support ticket, but i would probably confirm via a truth table that it isn't working first.

My question is - if you have the query set up, with all brackets as you want them, before saving, what happens if you run the query? Do you get the expected results? Or does it automatically remove brackets, even without saving?

I tried a query with the same structure of brackets and ANDs and ORs, but prior to saving it ran and didn't remove brackets (returned 2471 rows). I then saved it and it removed both sets of inner brackets, but still returned 2471 rows.