Can I exclude a project from the jira search results?

[Gareth Hughes]

I was thinking of filling up a Jira project with all of our old Feature Requests from our legacy CRM system. I was thinking along the lines of using the Jira Python library to create all the issues. I've played with that before and don't see that as a big problem.

But I don't want all these ancient cases polluting our search indexes and results. I'm wondering if there is any config to exclude a certain project from the main engine and only make it available if you tick a box somewhere to "search the obscure stuff"

thanks for any ideas

[JohnA · Accepted solution]

Hi Gareth,

It sounds like this document will be of interest to you because it contains strategies for archiving projects and either leaving them searchable or not as you desire: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Archiving+a+Project

All the best,
John

[Filipe]

I Gareth,

You could just set the permissions on that project for user of a certaing group, and only users in that group view results from that project.

I don't know if it solves completly your probem.

Regards,

[Gareth Hughes]

thanks for replying, yes I thought of that as well.