How to query for editable issues in JQL?

Question

I try to do a mass change of about 500 issues. But it does not work, because Jira tells me that at least one issue is not editable. Jira does not tell me which one it is. And Jira does not allow me to continue with just the remaining, which are editable.

How to get out of this dead-lock?

I need to refine my JQL query in order to exclude those issues, which are not editable. How can I do this? What is the JQL syntax to search just for editable issues?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Yes, you said that already,

I've already explained what's there, why the function is very unlikely to ever make it to the top of the pile of improvements, and how you can do it for yourself.

Sascha Ziemann · Answer

I have 500 issues and Jira told my: you can not edit some of them. So Jira knows, which issues I can not edit. So there must be a way to find out, because Jira did it already. All I want is, that Jira tells me what it did.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

It's never going to.  "Issue edit" is a permission, which varies by user, it is not an attribute of an individual issue.

No-one is suggesting you try to edit each individual, what we're suggesting is that you need to understand your data.

* If you have many projects in the data set, use that to narrow down which ones you can or cannot edit.
* If you have issues in "ended" status, check the way the project works to see if it blocks the editing of ended issues.
* Simplify your bulk edits down to issues that you know you can edit - do what you can, then look at the remaining ones later

A couple of iterations through that and you should uncover the reasons you don't have edit rights