Help using proximity search

Esther Strom_ ACP-JA

According to the documentation, I can do a proximity search to find words within a certain distance of each other. The example is simply

"atlassian jira"~10

I'm assuming that I can use a field in conjunction, but when I try this:

summary ~ "html5 credit card"~2

I get an error: Error in the JQL Query: Expecting either 'OR' or 'AND' but got '~'. (line 1, character 30)

Can someone please explain how to correctly do this kind of search?

Norman Abramovitz

The thing to note is the second term needs to a string, so the whole expression should be quoted. One of the confusing things is there quoting for the search expression and then there is quoting for the JQL. The outer quote is for the search expression. The tilde in the string is interpreted by JQL.

project = ANSWERS AND summary ~ '"emails event"~5'