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How to set operator priority in a quick filter when using AND and OR?

Jan Walsh

I would like the following Quick Filter that includes both:

- issues of type "task" with any status

- issues of type "feature" with status "Ready to Dev"

I would expect this to work, assuming that the AND operator takes precedence over the OR operator:

type in (Task) OR type in (Feature) AND status in ("Ready to dev")

However, when I toggle the filter on my board, I only get issues of type "task".

I also tested adding parentheses like this:

(type in (Task)) OR (type in (Feature) AND status in ("Ready to dev"))

But I got the same result.

Is this kind of query possible with Quick Filters? What's wrong with query?

Accepted answers

Hana Kučerová

Hi @Jan Walsh ,

welcome to the Atlassian community.

Please use parentheses like this:

type = Task OR (type = Feature AND status = "Ready to dev")

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Hana Kučerová

Hi @Jan Walsh ,

welcome to the Atlassian community.

Please use parentheses like this:

type = Task OR (type = Feature AND status = "Ready to dev")

Nikola Perisic

Hi @Jan Walsh

This query looks up for everything in the parantheses first then adds everything outside of parantheses.

issuetype = Task OR (issuetype = Feature AND status = "Ready to dev")

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Jan Walsh -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Adding to Hana's suggestions:

To help learn more about the order of operations in JQL, please review this documentation and free training from Atlassian:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/jql-keywords/

https://university.atlassian.com/student/path/849533-gain-project-insights-through-jql

Kind regards,
Bill

Jan Walsh

Hi @Hana Kučerová

Unfortunately, I have already tried (and just tried again) the query that you recommended.

Here is a screenshot before I save the Quick Filter:

Here is a screenshot after I click "Update":

As you can see, the parentheses aren't saved. When I open it again, the parentheses aren't there. And, when I refresh my board and use the filter, only tasks appear.

I confirm that I have issues of type "Feature" that should appear and to confirm this even more, a query like this [type = Feature AND status = "Ready to dev"] works to retrieve Feature issues with this status.

Jan Walsh

Hi @Nikola Perisic,

Unfortunately, setting parentheses in the query is not saved when updating the Quick Filter. See my response to Hana's comment above.

Hana Kučerová

Hi @Jan Walsh ,

you are right, the editor is removing the parentheses.

I've found out there have been issues with this behaviour in the past.

But, it works for me, even without the parentheses.

So, you are saying, that if you create three filters

type = Task
type = Feature and status = "Ready to dev"
type = Task OR type = Feature and status = "Ready to dev"

then when you use only the first one - all the Tasks show, the second one - all the Features with status "Ready to dev" show, but the third one shows only the Tasks?

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