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How can I search for issues that do NOT have a certain label

Steve Slesinger

I have tried various advanced searches and cannot get the syntax right. I want to look for all issues of certain status (for example, open or reopened or inprogress) but exclude any with a certain label (for example OnHold). Tried every kind of NOT but cannot get it to work. HELP please.

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Miroslav Atanas

had the same problem, solved it this way:

status in("open","reopened","inprogress") and (labels not in("OnHold") or labels is EMPTY)

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Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

Try

status in ("open","reopened","inprogress") and labels not in ("OnHold")

Steve Slesinger

I tried adding a screen shot but it isn't showing...I'll try converting to JPG

Steve Slesinger

It takes it but says no issues found, and there ARE issues with that label!!!

Steve Slesinger

Notice, I can use "in" to find ones with the label, and it works, but the "not in" returns no entries, when there should be LOTS.

Miroslav Atanas

had the same problem, solved it this way:

status in("open","reopened","inprogress") and (labels not in("OnHold") or labels is EMPTY)

thomas tulinsky

May be caused by the problem I report in

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/174362/search-with-not-requires-and-contrary-to-documentation

Seems to search for A and not B, you must say

A AND NOT B

not

A NOT B

which the documentation says.

Alexander Fedtke

Hi,

How do i get all issues without a specifc label xy

the query

project = A AND not labels = xy

is not workiing

can anyone help?

Michael Knight

Maybe try

project = A AND labels NOT IN (xy)

Alexander Fedtke

tried this as well without sucess.

I got zero results back even if i have issues from that project without label = xy

I am using JIRA 5.2.1

Any more suggestions?

Nitram

Check this, may be usefull for you,

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/73065/labels-does-not-contain-is-not-working

Hope this helps.

Michael Knight

Try

project = A AND (labels NOT IN (xy) OR labels IS EMPTY)

It behaves like SQL's NULL, where any comparison involving NULL (except for IS NULL) is false.

Alexander Fedtke

Great works you both made my day!

Hieu Le Trung2

It works for me. Thanks,

Tim van Cann

Works perfectly

Joshua Wold4

Worked! Thanks.

nigeljohnson73

I have issues logged that have a "DEMO" label. operationally I want to filter these out, prety much as the OP. There wasn't a proper anser above, a couple of fragments so I eventually came up with:

    and (labels is empty or (labels is not empty and labels not in (DEMO)))

This means if it's empty, list it. If it has any label, filter out issues that have the DEMO label. Hope that clarifies things.

unknown

Nice !

Nithya Priyaa B1

Thanks for your help smile This helped me with a query I was trying to get to work.

status in ("current sprint") AND (labels not in ("Tasking") OR labels is EMPTY)

Heather Laurence

You are my hero!

Mahender Reddy

Really saved my day thanks a lot☺

kathleen Walsh

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work for me.

the query is slightly more complicated:

project in (WIN) AND issuetype in (Epic, Initiative) AND status not in (Delivered, Closed, Cancelled) AND (labels not in ("Prime-Backlog") OR labels is EMPTY)

I get the same number of issues back with or without the last AND clause and get labels I don't want.

Pete Jones

That helped a lot, thanks

Pete

Jordi Federico

I had same issue. Had difficulties to filter Labels. I am using version 7.5.3

(labels not in (X,Y) or labels is EMPTY ) and status in (Backlog, Analysis).

Adding the "labels is empty" helped.

Tim McGrath

Problem is correctly identified above by Thomas Tulinksy. Beware that adding "labels is empty" appears to help (i.e. you suddenly see results, hurrrah) but does not show any issue that has a different label (e.g. "Z")

To overcome it, you must use the AND NOT exactly as Thomas described.

Status in (Backlog, Analysis) AND (NOT labels in (X,Y) OR labels is EMPTY) ORDER BY LABELS ASC

Brian Mackey_jvkwal

Actually for me this worked:

labels not in (DEMO) OR labels is EMPTY

The OR clause is critical

Ian Tait_d807u8

This does not work for me even a little bit.

How can I say that the text field does not contain a specific string?

This is for INCLUDING the text "missing":
project = MYPROJECT AND status = "To Do" AND assignee in (EMPTY) AND reporter in (jiramail) AND text ~ "missing" ORDER BY created DESC

How can I tweak this to make it show me issues that DO NOT INCLUDE the text "missing"?

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