Jira query for tracking if a user comments on a story

Jenna Frenak

Hello!

 

I'm trying to set up a query for a dashboard that will allow me to track if something has been sent out for review or not. Currently, the only way we keep track of this is commenting on the story that the documentation has been sent to someone for review (we don't have like a checkbox or anything for this).

 

I'm pretty new to JQL and I'm not even sure you can use the comment box on a story  in a query to pull information so I figured I would ask here.

 

Ideally, it would use something like if a specific user comments "documentation out for review" then it'll pull that info for my rich filter on my dashboard.

 

Hopefully this at least kind of makes sense. Like I said before, I'm very new to JQL so I appreciate any help/feedback!

Alex Christensen

I don't think there's anything built into Jira natively that will allow you to search the contents of specific comments. There are options out there like ScriptRunner that will give you some JQL functions to search for issues with comments by certain people within a given time period, though. An example using ScriptRunner (more docs here):

issueFunction in commented("after -7d by alex.christensen")

I would also recommend tracking "In Review" as a status or something in your workflow. Having a separate status for this would be easier to report on rather than relying on comments that have specific content, in my opinion.