How to count how many times a specific string appears in the labels?

Question

We use the field "labels" to indicate to which team an issue is assigned to. Sometimes users assign issues to multiple teams, which they shouldn't, as it has an impact on the metrics.

Is there a way how to find duplicate assignments? All our team labels start with "z_" (e.g. z_Alpha, z_Beta). Something like "if the count of "z_" in the labels field > 1 then error"?

Thanks for your advice!

Bill Sheboy · Accepted Answer

Hi @Martin Härri

There is nothing built into to do that.  How often do you need to perform this check?

If it is infrequently, please try a JQL search ordered by the labels to find the duplicates.

If you need this more often, consider checking if you have addons to enhance the features of JQL, or make a dashboard showing labels to quickly find issues with multiple labels, or try an automation rule.

Kind regards,
Bill

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Accepted Answer

Hi @Martin Härri,

if you are open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, this would now be easy to do using the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a number of advanced features, including support for (configurable) issue hierarchies, issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting - as well as the ability to filter issues based on regular expressions.

With regular-expression-based filtering, you can apply pretty much any logic, including the one that you are after:

Once you've narrowed down your list of issues, you can work on your issues directly in JXL, trigger various operations in Jira, or export your issues with just one click.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes