Is there a way to use a wildcard when searching Labels ?

[Stuart Murdock]

I would like to search for Labels that partially match a term, for example I would like to have Labels "test1" show when I search for "test" . Is there a way to use labels when searching in a wildcard fashion ? 

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Stuart Murdock

welcome to the community!

If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, this would be easy to do using the app that my team is working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. One of the filtering options (available for all fields, including labels) is text filtering, which performs a partial match by default. This is how it looks in action:

For more advanced use cases, you can also filter based on regular expressions.

I should also add that JXL can do much more than the above: From support for configurable issue hierarchies, to issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

[Prosper Agwegiokhe]

Hi @Stuart Murdock ,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

I’m Prosper, a support engineer at Appfire, and I’m here to help.

As @Mikael Sandberg as said, If you are open to other plugging suggestions, you can try out our App JQL Search Extension.

You can use the query

issue in wildcardMatch("labels", "*test*") 

to get search for the wildcard "test" in the Label field.

You can see more information about this query here, and please contact our support if you have any other questions about this query.

We’ll be happy to help you!

Best regards,
Prosper.

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi @Stuart Murdock,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

The short answer is no, it is not possible to use wildcard when searching labels. In order for that to work you would need an app that extends JQL to allow wildcard search. I know Enhanced search for Jira/Scriptrunner is able to do this, but I but one of the other apps in the Marketplace could also do that. 

[Stuart Murdock]

Ok, thanks for the response, and for contributing, it is appreciated. 

Stuart