Searching all epics in a project does not return everything

Question

When I search with the following JQL:

project = 'ABC' and issuetype = 'epic'

It does not return all the epics under the project. In fact, it fails to return quite a lot of them. Could not find a reason based on epic status.

JIRA search in general sucks - reason I was trying the above was because simply searching for the title of the epic failed, coming back with "no issues were found to match your search"

samuel.tan · Answer

Hi John,

Thanks for responding. Not sure what changed, but now all the epics are showing correctly. Before, it would only show one page and was missing epics I knew existed because I was working on them.

John Funk · Answer

Can you list some of the Epics that are not being returned?

samuel.tan · Answer

It would return a whole bunch of epics, but not ALL of the epics. I thought it may be status dependent (e.g. some epics are closed) but that is not so. I could not find a link between why some epics are returned and others are ignored.