Is it possible to remove the Search Selection fields after the Search/Filter has completed ?

Question

Our organisation is using the new Jira Navigation from today.

Yes it is mainly better with the navigation along the top instead of down the side but I see this problem below almost immediately.

1.  I perform a search of issues using one of the standard filters.

2.  The I modify it slightly by changing the selection of issue type (I want to see bugs only).

3.  Jira shows the results and this is fine.

4.  I can choose the "detail view" or "List view" and this is also helpful.

But much of my little laptop screen is filled with the selection fields and Filter Headings  :

I cannot find a way to change the size of this area.  Is it possible to just show the RESULTS of the search without the Selection fields that I used ?  I want this area collapsed so that I have maximum room for the results.  Is this possible in the new navigation ?  This is a real pain as it takes up about 33% of my screen.....

Thanks experts (or anyone !) in advance for your help !

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Now the 1st June, and still not one answer ?  Can nobody help ?  :-(

wkin2998 · Answer

Hi Andy,

Your professional and comprehensive answer is much appreciated and goes a long way to remedying my general impression that Atlassian software is over-hyped rather "B-grade" software, and that the user community is almost never heeded.  Again thanks. This is promising.

(Of course I would have appreciated a more timely response to my original query, but given the fact that you have given my enquiry serious attention rather than a dismissive fob "canned" answer - as is the almost universal experience these days with every large software enterprise - I am grateful as I say for your professional treatment / response).

My laptop is a work-supplied Dell Inspiron Laptop with a 14" (Diagonal-measurement) screen and a maximum resolution of 1366 x 768 (Hardware-limited) which is the setting I use.  I am running Windows 10 Professional.

I will certainly put my vote in on 34357 as you suggest, although frankly my past experience with voting on Jira feature-requests (like the ability to disable emoticons on comments as a site-wide setting which has been asked repeatedly for years and each time is rejected because and I quote "we believe that the majority of our users want this feature" - which may even be true, although the number of professional organisations using the software screaming for the optional ability to disable emoticons over many years ought to be more than enough to warrant giving them the ability to optionally disable them).

Yes the short of the issue is that once a search is done, a typical user will most commonly want to work with the results. It will only be an occasional  need for a user to refer back to the search criteria and be reminded of what they searched.  But the current interface effectively assumes that you most commonly want to see clearly the search criteria at all  times.  To be able to collapse/minimize the search criteria area, and only review / change it by reopening it within the UI would be ideal, as the significant portion of the screen taken up by the search criteria would then be released back to the UI and more result rows would be displayed.

I am not familiar with tamperMonkey - I shall have to investigate a little to learn what it does and see whether it might possibly help.  Thanks especially for your offer to help craft a suitable script.  That may be moot however if my employer's IT policies on plugins (our laptop configurations are centrally managed)  do not allow for that particular 3rd-party add-in but again I appreciate your willingness to try and find a workable solution.

I will advise you by way of further response once I have done some investigation around tampermonkey and whether it or any other similar 3rd-party plugin is allowed / supported by our IT department.

Thanks.

Warren.

Andy Heinzer · Answer

Hi,

I understand that you want to be able to hide or collapse this section of the issue navigator page.   In short, this is not possible to do just yet, not even in the new navigation of Jira Cloud.  However there does exist a feature request for this over in JRACLOUD-34357.

I would recommend watching and voting on that issue if this affects you.  This can help to serve as a guide for letting our teams decide on what changes and improvements to make to Jira over time.

In the meantime, I am curious as I would like to know more about your environment in order to better understand this problem.

* How large is the size of your screen?
* And what is the resolution of your display?

My understanding is that the way this page looks is meant to accommodate the majority of users and use cases.  So it might not be feasible at this time to try to optimize it for everyone to satisfy your particular use case here.

That said, it might be possible to use a browser plugin such as tampermonkey to manually adjust the way this page looks on your end.  That might not be an ideal solution for everyone, but it does seem like this could offer some kind of work-around to the current state here.

Please let me know your thoughts, I have been playing with tampermonkey a bit on this topic and I think I could help craft such a script that might be helpful to altering the way this looks in your browser.

Andy