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What happened with search history?

Peter Friberg3

Just upgraded from 5.0 to 5.2.6. The new search interface was announced to be a big highlight.

However, I can't see that we gain that much. People just need to re-learn.

A big disappointment is that my search history, with my recent JQL searches, has disappeared. It was a very useful function. Why is it removed? Or is it around somewhere else?

Accepted answers

Renjith Pillai

Wrote a quick script which can help you to JQL history (even though it won't be synchronized across all browsers/machine that you use). Just uses the local storage.

Put this into the announcement banner and you will be good to go (tested on JIRA 6.1.1):

EDIT: Minor changes for the order of items

&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;
var refreshJqlHistoryPane = function() {
	var localHistory = localStorage.getItem('jqlHistory');
	if(localHistory){
		var history = JSON.parse(localHistory);
		var historyEntries = history.map(function(jql){
			var display = jql;
			if(display.length &gt; 25){
				display = display.substr(0,22) + "...";
			}
			return '&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="'+ AJS.contextPath() + '/issues/?jql=' + encodeURIComponent(jql)  + '"&gt;' + display + '&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;';
		});
		var historyBlock = '&lt;nav class="aui-navgroup aui-navgroup-vertical"&gt;&lt;div id="jql-history-panel"&gt;&lt;div class="aui-nav-heading"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JQL History&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;' + 
		'&lt;ul class="aui-nav"&gt;' + 
			historyEntries.join("") + '&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/nav&gt;';

		if(AJS.$('#jql-history-panel')){
			AJS.$('#jql-history-panel').remove();
		}
		AJS.$(AJS.$('.filter-panel-section')[0]).after(historyBlock);
	}
}

var handleJqlSearch = function(){
	JIRA.bind(JIRA.Events.NEW_CONTENT_ADDED, function(){
		var currJql = AJS.$('#advanced-search').val();
		if(null != currJql &amp;&amp; currJql !== "")
		{
			var rawdata = localStorage.getItem('jqlHistory');
			var history;

			if(rawdata){
				history = JSON.parse(rawdata);
				var lastJql = history[0];
				if(lastJql != currJql){
					history.unshift(currJql);
				}
				if(history.length &gt; 10){
					history.pop();
				}
			}
			else{
				history = new Array();
				history.push(currJql);
			}
			localStorage.setItem('jqlHistory', JSON.stringify(history));
		}
		refreshJqlHistoryPane();
	});
}

AJS.$(document).ready(function() {
	if(AJS.$('#advanced-search')) {
		handleJqlSearch();
	}
});
&lt;/script&gt;

All comments

JamieA

It's not around anywhere else, they removed it because they said it wasn't used much.

BTW, when they say things like this it's based on metrics from AOD, which have very different user patterns from the hosted instances.

I agree with you, I used it a lot and miss it.

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

I too miss it. You can't expect people to save every single search as filter. Especially when trying things out.

unknown

There are two distinct worlds of JIRA users - those accustomed with JQL syntax and the others.

I was for long time hesitating to upgrade to version 5.2 for our company (and customers), when an user recalls me what a poor experience is simple search in pre-5.2 version. For those users using simple search is 5.2 the blessing (and they really never used the JQL history and don't miss it).

Kathy Tempesta

Well, there's a reason not to upgrade. I use that feature all the time.

Peter Friberg3

Please Atlassian, reintroduce this feature.

Brian Harvell1

I miss it as well. Especially since you can't have two searches in a single session. It's very annoying to make a complicated JQL search and to have it blown because you needed to search for something else.

Chris Fontan3

THis is crazy!! jeeeeze.. Put it back.

unknown

Well. the search history is actually there - just hit back button (or access the context menu on the back button). Or hit Ctrl-H and filter by ?jql=.

Ram Tandukar [D

What? Use Ctrl-H? Gotta be kidding me.

I should have cornered someone at Summit and bribed/forced them to put it back!

RenjithA

Wrote a quick script which can help you to JQL history (even though it won't be synchronized across all browsers/machine that you use). Just uses the local storage.

Put this into the announcement banner and you will be good to go:

&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;
var refreshJqlHistoryPane = function() {
	var localHistory = localStorage.getItem('jqlHistory');
	if(localHistory){
		var history = JSON.parse(localHistory);
		var historyEntries = history.map(function(jql){
			var display = jql;
			if(display.length &gt; 25){
				display = display.substr(0,22) + "...";
			}
			return '&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="'+ AJS.contextPath() + '/issues/?jql=' + encodeURIComponent(jql)  + '"&gt;' + display + '&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;';
		});
		var historyBlock = '&lt;nav class="aui-navgroup aui-navgroup-vertical"&gt;&lt;div id="jql-history-panel"&gt;&lt;div class="aui-nav-heading"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JQL History&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;' + 
		'&lt;ul class="aui-nav"&gt;' + 
			historyEntries.join("") + '&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/nav&gt;';

		if(AJS.$('#jql-history-panel')){
			AJS.$('#jql-history-panel').remove();
		}
		AJS.$(AJS.$('.filter-panel-section')[0]).after(historyBlock);
	}
}

var handleJqlSearch = function(){
	JIRA.bind(JIRA.Events.NEW_CONTENT_ADDED, function(){
		var currJql = AJS.$('#advanced-search').val();
		if(null != currJql &amp;&amp; currJql !== "")
		{
			var rawdata = localStorage.getItem('jqlHistory');
			var history;

			if(rawdata){
				history = JSON.parse(rawdata);
				var lastJql = history[history.length - 1];
				if(lastJql !== currJql){
					history.push(currJql);
				}
			}
			else{
				history = new Array();
				history.push(currJql);
			}
			localStorage.setItem('jqlHistory', JSON.stringify(history));
		}
		refreshJqlHistoryPane();
	});
}

AJS.$(document).ready(function() {
	if(AJS.$('#advanced-search')) {
		handleJqlSearch();
	}
});
&lt;/script&gt;

Renjith Pillai

Wrote a quick script which can help you to JQL history (even though it won't be synchronized across all browsers/machine that you use). Just uses the local storage.

Put this into the announcement banner and you will be good to go (tested on JIRA 6.1.1):

EDIT: Minor changes for the order of items

&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;
var refreshJqlHistoryPane = function() {
	var localHistory = localStorage.getItem('jqlHistory');
	if(localHistory){
		var history = JSON.parse(localHistory);
		var historyEntries = history.map(function(jql){
			var display = jql;
			if(display.length &gt; 25){
				display = display.substr(0,22) + "...";
			}
			return '&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="'+ AJS.contextPath() + '/issues/?jql=' + encodeURIComponent(jql)  + '"&gt;' + display + '&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;';
		});
		var historyBlock = '&lt;nav class="aui-navgroup aui-navgroup-vertical"&gt;&lt;div id="jql-history-panel"&gt;&lt;div class="aui-nav-heading"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JQL History&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;' + 
		'&lt;ul class="aui-nav"&gt;' + 
			historyEntries.join("") + '&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/nav&gt;';

		if(AJS.$('#jql-history-panel')){
			AJS.$('#jql-history-panel').remove();
		}
		AJS.$(AJS.$('.filter-panel-section')[0]).after(historyBlock);
	}
}

var handleJqlSearch = function(){
	JIRA.bind(JIRA.Events.NEW_CONTENT_ADDED, function(){
		var currJql = AJS.$('#advanced-search').val();
		if(null != currJql &amp;&amp; currJql !== "")
		{
			var rawdata = localStorage.getItem('jqlHistory');
			var history;

			if(rawdata){
				history = JSON.parse(rawdata);
				var lastJql = history[0];
				if(lastJql != currJql){
					history.unshift(currJql);
				}
				if(history.length &gt; 10){
					history.pop();
				}
			}
			else{
				history = new Array();
				history.push(currJql);
			}
			localStorage.setItem('jqlHistory', JSON.stringify(history));
		}
		refreshJqlHistoryPane();
	});
}

AJS.$(document).ready(function() {
	if(AJS.$('#advanced-search')) {
		handleJqlSearch();
	}
});
&lt;/script&gt;

MattS

That's pretty smart!

MattS

Not the same level of functionality at all!

Peter Friberg3

Agree, it works fine!

However, I would like to see the feature reintroduced

unknown

Elegant solution - I have improved it in this gist with

tooltip with full JQL
smarter removing of duplicates

Charles Trudel

We just upgraded (or downgraded if you liked to use search history) about a month ago, and it is the first thing I noticed was missing. Really a pain in the neck to have to save a filter now, where before I could simply click on the previous searches.

Removing this feature was a bad call. Was there some big overhead to maintain the feature??? Many on my team and I hope it will be added back in.

Ram Tandukar_g9no5i

Vote for it to come back here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-30607

Fabian Meier1

Atlassian is weird. Such a basic and great feature, now gone. I just lost a really complex search query because I clicked on a label by accident. Now my last search is the one for the label *doh*

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