Advanced search for all issues updated by specific user

[Gui Ávila]

Hello!

I'm trying to search for all issues that was updated in the last X hours by a specific user. It does not need to be the last update.

If a specific user made an update (any type of update) in the last X hours, the issue should appear in the search.

Not sure if I can do that with the basic search, I'm afraid I need to use JQL. Could someone please help with the expression?

Thanks!

Gui.

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Gui,

To get all activity, it is probably better to use a dashboard with an Activity Stream gadget.

Use Username and the person's username, obviously and maybe add Update Date is today

[Gui Ávila]

Yes, that's a nice idea @John Funk . Thanks!

I tried to add the person's username, but there is no autocomplete. https://share.getcloudapp.com/kpuNKLzn

I can't even click on the done button anymore, it's out of the screen. https://share.getcloudapp.com/d5uP1vq0

These poor UX in Jira drives me crazy :(

[John Funk]

try just tying the username without the autocomplete. For example, john.funk

[Gui Ávila]

@John Funk Yeah, I did that. But I just can't understand these very frequent poor UX. Nevermind, lol

Thanks, John.

[Gui Ávila]

@John Funk Please, how can I find a user's username?

[John Funk]

Go to Settings > User Management and search for the user. You will need to have Site Admin permissions to do that. 

[Gui Ávila]

@John Funk Thanks!

What I see is this.

Because of the spaces (I think), the Activity Stream gadget does not find the results.

[Daniel Ebers]

Alternatively, you could use the updatedBy() function of JQL:
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/advanced-search-reference-jql-functions/

Examples

• Find issues that were updated by John Smith:issuekey IN updatedBy(jsmith)

• Find issues that were updated by John Smith within the last 8 days:
issuekey IN updatedBy(jsmith, "-8d")


• Find issues updated between June and September 2018:issuekey IN updatedBy(jsmith, "2018/06/01", "2018/08/31")

• If you try to find issues updated in the last hour, like in the following example, the time will be rounded up to 1 day, as smaller values aren't supported:
issuekey IN updatedBy(jsmith, "-1h")

[Jared Polman]

@Daniel Ebers thank you kindly!

This worked great for my end user.

I had to do multiple specific dates rather than a range so mine ended up looking closer to:

issuekey IN updatedBy("jsmith", "2018/06/01") OR issuekey IN updatedBy("jsmith", "2018/06/10") OR issuekey IN updatedBy("jsmith", "2018/06/15")