JQL for issue with approvals null

[Josip Šćirek]

How I can filter issues that don't have approvals? field empty (No approvers selected).

[Jack Brickey]

@MoroSystems Support, the "is" operator is not supported for Approvals field.

@Josip Šćirek, the only thing I can suggest right off is to use the "pending()". If I find a better solution I will add here.

[MoroSystems Support]

@Jack Brickey thanks for correction, it slipped out of my mind.

[Josip Šćirek]

@Jack Brickey Thx for information but "pending()" is not what i need.

[Sean Roberts]

For this, we use the 'approvers' field in JQL.

Problem: However, by default the field is not searchable, which is why it does not work in JQL.

Solution: A Jira admin can update the custom field to be "searchable". It may require reindexing.

BUT, I agree that `approvals()` should have other functions, such as != or `is not`.

For example, I would like to search for items which have `approvers` but have not been approved. Checking `approval=pending()` is not enough since that only accounts for ones where the current status is an approval status.

And this doesn't work:

• and not approvals = approved()

You get the same result with 'and' or 'and not'.

[Richard]

Maybe you can try Approvers (field) instead of Approval (function).

Something like this works on our instance:

status = "Awaiting approval" and Approvers in (EMPTY)

Note 1: "Awaiting approval" is the status of your workflow where the "Approvers" are set.

Note 2: The "Approvers" field is available when "Service Desk" is installed.

Cheers!

[Martin Boehme]

I have Jira Service Desk Cloud and there is no "Approvers" in JQL.

In order to search for a certain approver, you need to query

Approvals = approver("username")

And this way, you can't search for an empty Approver field. Or at least, I don't know how :(

[Richard]

Have you tried adding this to your JQL query?

and approver in (EMPTY)

[MoroSystems Support]

Hello Josip,

I think you ar looking for "is EMPTY". Please, try this JQL:

status = "Awaiting approval" AND Approvals is EMPTY

[Josip Šćirek]

I get message:

The operator 'is' is not supported by the 'Approvals' field. Unknown Approval function. Please use one of supported functions: pending, pendingBy, approved, approver, myApproval, myPending

[Dean Zimmermann]

Yes, same here.  They really need something to indicate approvers is empty, like maybe just isempty() or approvercount() = 0