As an end user of Jira, I want to search for Issues on the basis of a string of numbers, e.g. 123.

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As an end user of Jira, I want to search for Issues on the basis of a string of numbers, e.g. 123. There are likely Issues captured in Jira that may have an identifier that is not specifically captured in a structured field. So, I might have Defect 123 that is captured as text within the Description or other field. But it might also have been described as Bug123. I want to search "123" in Jira and find this item, even though it is identified (unique Jira ID) as JIRAPROJECT-456.

Jeffrey Aberle · Answer

Many thanks for your response, Payne. It is helpful and does certainly widen the result set, as you suggest, but indeed (as you've also said) does not return all matches. This leaves this as an unreliable solution from an overall Jira perspective.

Payne · Answer

If 123 exists as its own word (as in your first example of Defect 123) you can search for it in the quick search box by putting quotation marks around it ("123"). If it is a substring of a word, as in your second example (Bug123), you can use the asterisk as a wildcard, but not at the beginning of the string, meaning "*123" is not legal, but "123*" is legal. I find that typing "123*" in the quick search box leads to JQL of text ~ "\"123*\"" which doesn't return all matches, but altering that to text ~ "123*" returns a more complete set of matches. See https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/search-syntax-for-text-fields-861257223.html for further information.

Hope this helps,

Payne