Can you have a filter that shows issues where the issue type has been changed?

Question

As part of a revised process - a team are wanting to raise Bugs as Bugs - but then for working them in sprint, convert them to Stories (as they can then capture the effort via story points).

Is there a way to query 'issues where their issue type has been changed'?

Cheers,

Andrew

Matt Parks · Answer

My recommendation is to just add the Story Points field to the Bug screens. Then keep the items as Bugs.

Ste Wright · Answer

Hi @Andrew McGrory

Trudy's answer is correct, there's no native way of doing this without an App, or additional metadata.

But why would you want to do this?

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You're going to lose visibility of what bugs have been found, how many were fixed, what versions they impacted, etc.

You'd be better to create a separate Story to "fix" the Bug. You could even have one Story for multiple Bugs.

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I'd also suggest using Automation depending on what solution you decide on to help reduce manual intervention - for example, Automation could...

* Generate the initial Story, populating relevant information
* Populate a Label or Custom Field if the Issue Type is edited, so you can track Stories which were Bugs (given it's not possible natively)
* ...etc

Ste

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Andrew McGrory

Welcome to the Atlassian community!

The short answer is no, not without a third party plugin.

There is a WAS operator, but it works with only a limited number of fields, and Issue Type is not one of those fields.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/advanced-searching-operators-reference-939938745.html