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How do you search for an exact phrase in JIRA?

Greg Froese

I want to be able to search for something like "first point" where that exact phrase appears in the ticket. The word "first" followed by "point".

The article here shows how to do that but it doesn't work when I try it. The results contain word stemming and anything that has both the words in it.

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Jack Brickey

I'm not sure this is possible OOTB. I recall trying this a long time back w/o success and just played with it and could not get it to work. Maybe there is a way but I can't find it. You might check an addon like Scriptrunner. It has and exactmatch function I believe but have not tried it myself.

Tom Lister_fo1j4e

Hi @Greg Froese

this article is more specific about text searching - Apache Lucene index searches

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/search-syntax-for-text-fields-861257223.html

Although it suggests “first point” in double quotes should work.

You could try a proximity search

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Greg Froese

Thanks for the link, I hadn't considered the proximity search, however, when I tried it, I kept getting results that simply had both words somewhere in the ticket.

In fact, the results contained tickets that had one word in the summary and the other word in the description. Apparently the proximity was not being respected even across fields.