Is there a way to filter by multiple labels at once using JQL?

[Faraaz Saiduzzaman]

Hello Jira community!

I am looking for a way to filter by multiple labels at once. I've previously used a filter to filter by several labels, as so:

labels in (HUD, Design, UX) ORDER BY labels ASC

The problem with this is that the search displays issues matching ANY of the labels in question, as opposed to what I want, which is ONLY issues matching ALL the labels.

I hope I'm making sense! It doesn't seem like this use case is what the AND operator is used for, so I wonder if there is a way to create an exclusion within the parentheses perhaps?

Thanks for your help,

Faraaz

[Faraaz Saiduzzaman · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mykenna Cepek and @Bharathi

These solutions are technically correct for if I was intending to show issues that match all three labels at the same time, which is a valid and helpful suggestion, so thank you. 

However, my intended usage is to show issues that match two labels at a time. Essentially, as an example, I want it to show:

1. Issues that have the labels HUD and Design,
2. Issues that have the labels UX and Design,
3. Issues that have the labels Map and Design,

And so on.

I do not want the filter incorporating this search to show all Design issues (since not all of them are relevant), nor do I want it to show all UX issues, for example, since those issues may be in another discipline (e.g. Engineering).

I hope my explanation makes sense. Thanks so much for your help!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

So the question changes to:

labels in (HUD, UX, Map) and labels = Design

[Faraaz Saiduzzaman]

This worked!  Thanks so much. I think I need to learn to distinguish between the use case of "=" and "in" as well.

-Faraaz

[Mykenna Cepek]

Have you tried something like this?

labels in (HUD) and labels in (Design) and labels in (UX) ORDER BY labels ASC

[Bharathi]

Hi @Faraaz Saiduzzaman,

As @Mykenna Cepek has rightly pointed out, you need to specify each label separately with an "AND" in between.

labels = HUD AND labels = Design AND labels = UX ORDER BY labels ASC

[Mykenna Cepek]

What @Bharathi suggested is a bit simpler than what I wrote. Either one will work.