Prevent Search for Issues from returning all issues

[Brian Bashynski]

We have nearly a half million issues in our instance. How can we prevent the complete list from returning when a user clicks "Search for Issues?"

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

What version of JIRA are you on?

[Brian Bashynski]

6.1.6

Previously I added this to properties file:

jira.search.views.default.max = 2000 jira.search.views.max.limit = 2000

But It still returns all

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist]]

Hmm, I seem to remember that's not a problem on 6.1.  Why are you trying to shorten it?

[Brian Bashynski]

The response time to retrieve all the issues is excessive. I also suspect it may be impacting performance when many users are searching for issues at the same time

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist]]

Yes, that's what I thought 6.1 fixed.  Must be 6.2 or 6.3 then.

There's no way to restrict it in 6.1 without hacking the navigator code.  If you upgrade, you'll find it still searches everything, but it only loads the first page, so there's no performance hit.