How to extract the history of changes on the status and resolution of a bug?

[Mona E]

Does anybody know what is the simplest way to extract the history of changes on the statuses and resolutions of a bug for a list of jira bugs in atlassian? Does advanced search help here?

[Matthew Hunter · Accepted solution]

Hi Mona,

You can view the history of an issue on a per issue basis by clicking into the 'History' tab. Unfortunately though it's not possible to view the history of multiple issues at once.

You can search through the history though by using the 'WAS' and 'CHANGED' JQL operators though. The documentation on this can be found at:

* https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching#AdvancedSearching-WAS and

* https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching#AdvancedSearching-CHANGED

Cheers,

Matt

[Sadie Mardan]

I searched for myself today and found this. I love Jira it's designed so smart!!

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Becoming-a-JIRA-Search-Ninja-History-searches-in-JIRA/ba-p/461943

[Zoryana Bohutska _SaaSJet_]

Hi there

I'd like to propose the solution - the add-on Issue History for Jira Cloud.

It shows the history of all changes that had been made with specific issues.

Plug-in allows:
- Get the changes log ordered by the date
- Use filters to select issues list
- Set columns to show different fields on the report grid
- Apply custom date range to filter results.

At the Atlassian Marketplace you can get more information about the add-on and try the trial version of it.

If you have any question, please contact me directly zoryana@saasjet.com.

[Thierry Bouvet]

Hi,

I'm very interesting for this solution but I use Jira Server and not Jira Cloud. Do you think it could possible to test this plugin on Jira Server ?

Thanks

[Rahul_RVS_Support]

Hi @Thierry Bouvet 

We From RVS team have built a plugin for Jira server to provide status changes information right on your issue screen. You might want to try it out

Agile Tools 

Various charts are available to track status and assignee transition and JQL based time in status report as well.

[Thierry Bouvet]

Thanks for your answer, but is it possible to have a change log for a list of jira (for example extract change log for a jira filter) ?

[Rahul_RVS_Support]

Hi @Thierry Bouvet 

Yes. You can use your saved filter in the JQL search

You can use the below syntax

filter = "your filter name" 

It will pull out the Time in Status Report based on the filter.

Please do let me know if you face any issues. Will be glad to help

Thanks

[Mona E]

I noticed the operators in advanced search here

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching#AdvancedSearching-CustomField

but have not figured this out yet. Thanks!