I want to add archive date to a fliter in Jira

Becky Fritzges

I am doing manual bulk archiving, since I can't do bulk archiving.  On a Space, I can see "Archived work items" and in the results there is a "Archived Date" field.  I have multpile spaces that I work in.  I want to create a filter to identify all tasks that have already been archived across all spaces.  If I could add the "Arhived Date" field to the filter I would get my results.

Germán Morales

Hi @Becky Fritzges , welcome to the Community. The reason this is awkward isn't the Archived Date field, it's that Product Discovery's own view filters only ever look at one space at a time, so there's no way to build a single filter inside JPD that reaches across all your spaces at once.

To get a cross-space list you need to step out of JPD's views and use a global Jira filter with JQL instead. Your ideas are Jira issues underneath, so a JQL filter can span every discovery project in one go. The catch is that archived ideas are left out of JQL by default, so you opt them back in using the archived field, which is now a global system field you reference by its name. That returns every archived idea across all your spaces in one saved filter, which is the result you're after. Worth flagging that the archive timestamp itself isn't really the thing to filter on; the archived status is what identifies them, the date is just when it happened. Atlassian's guidance on referencing that field in a Jira filter is here: Using the archived field in Jira filters

One aside on the manual part: you can actually bulk archive without going one by one. In a list view, select the ideas (tick the header checkbox to grab them all), then click Archive on the dark bar at the bottom. It works within a space, but it saves the clicking inside each one.