How to find Previous Assignee of tasks using jql query in Jira?

Question

I want to filter out the tasks, stories, bugs, etc. that were once assigned to another user and now the "Assigned to" has become blank?

Gor Greyan · Answer

Hi @Saurav Kumar Singh

Welcome to the Community!

You can also try this one.

assignee = EMPTY AND assignee WAS user.name

Dave Mathijs · Answer

Hi, @Saurav Kumar Singh Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You could try the following JQL with currentUser() as example:

assignee IS EMPTY AND assignee CHANGED FROM currentUser()