JQL filter to exclude issues that have ONLY a specific component

Question

The service management project has some components (alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo..).

I want to have a queue (based on a JQL filter) where I want to

* show all issues with no components (component IS EMPTY)
* show issues that have one or more components
* do not show issues that are only related to the component "alpha" (component != "alpha")* (issues with component "alpha" + at least another component need to be in result set)

The only way I can think of is to list all components except "alpha":

component IS EMPTY or component IN ("bravo", "charlie", "delta", "echo")

Unfortunately if someone adds a component to the project in the future, this JQL filter will have to be updated. This can be a huge source of errors.

Is there a way to do this generic (excluding one value)? In SQL you would for example work with a subquery.

Thank you very much

Florian Bonniec · Accepted Answer

Hi @Aljoscha Zöller

I'm afraid that in order to display issue with a component and not other, you have to list them all like

component = "A" AND component not in ("B", "C", "D", ...)

I check Scriptrunner JQL function but did not find a way to do it for this field. In theory this should have worked, I use it for other custom field but it do not seems to work for component field.

componenets = A and NOT issueFunction in issueFieldMatch("component is not empty","components","(.*)[,](.*)")

Maybe there is another 3rd party app that provide synch JQL function.

Regards

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Accepted Answer

Hi @Aljoscha Zöller

just to add to @Florian Bonniec's great answer:

If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, this would be easy to do using the app that my team and I 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 range of advanced features, including the ability to filter issues via regular expressions.

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

The regex that I'm using is

^Portal fluid$

which matches issues that have this exact one component set.

Once you've identified your issues, you can work on them directly in JXL (e.g., bulk edit them via copy/paste), or trigger various operations in Jira.

I should also add that JXL can do much more than the above: From support for configurable issue hierarchies, to issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes