How can I do a quoted string search of Title and Description fields in JIRA

[dennis.werner]

How can I do a quoted string search of Title and Description fields in JIRA?

I want to search for "word1 word2" appearing in either title or description in that exact order with a space between them.

I don't want word1 OR word2.

I don't want word1 AND word2 without the space between.

It seems so simple.

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

Hi Dennis,

I have never been able to get this to work and I have done hours of searching and reading of articles including this one - search-syntax-for-text-fields . I have tried using boolean expressions etc. but not luck. While it likely exists somewhere I have yet to find any definitive word that say "you can't do that and here is why". I have certainly found that it is doable using an addon like scriptrunner and others. 

I would love to find a solid answer on this that I could bookmark to memory.

[dennis.werner]

So very sad that such a basic, useful functionality would be so problematic in a platform like JIRA - where searching is critical to finding.  Which is critical to success.

Thanks for the response.

[Daniel Eads]

Hi Dennis,

There is some exact matching listed in the documentation, it doesn't consistently work in Jira Cloud. As Jack noted, the best solution for the moment appears to be using Scriptrunner's issueFieldMatch function.

We do have an open bug for the exact matcher not working as expected, which I would encourage you to vote on: JRACLOUD-69263 . While the votes don't dictate which issues get resolved first, they do give our product managers insight into how important particular items are to work on in relation to one another.

Thanks,
Daniel | Atlassian Support