Link Issues to Test Plan that have no equivalent tests using advanced search

Evanthia Charalampidou

Hello everyone, 

we're using the the XRay Test Management to manage the QA process of our app. So far, I have created separate test sets to group the tests logically.

I wanted to utilize the Test Plan issue type as well and I added the tests through the test sets and created the equivalent test executions directly through the Test Plan.

However, there are some features that have no equivalent Tests that I can link. I tried linking theses issues (e.g., stories, tasks, ...) using the Link option of the Test Plan. In order to bulk link the equivalent tests, I used the advanced search, however the syntax was not recognized. It seemed like no matter what I searched using the advanced search was invalid. The JQL syntax I used was very simple and it works with the general issue search, namely:

project = ProjectName AND fixVersion in (Version 1, Version 2) AND status = Approve

Therefore, I thought this might either be a bug or a limitation of XRay or I'm doing something wrong. 

Evanthia Charalampidou

After contacting the support for our instance, it turns out that the project name was what was causing the error. So, if you get an error when trying to link issues directly through a specific issue type (in our case Test Plan) and you're using the advanced search to filter out the equivalent issues, try using the project key instead of the name in the query.