JQL How does "Was" operator work with status field?

[Andrzej Warycha]

I have problem with JQL query which uses "was" operator with "status" field.

For example I have 10 issues (only one time resolved)

Issue     Resolved date  
ISSUE-1   2013-03-15 
ISSUE-2   2013-04-05
ISSUE-3   2013-07-10
ISSUE-4   2013-11-11
ISSUE-5   2014-01-13
ISSUE-6   2014-01-15 
ISSUE-7   2014-02-05
ISSUE-8   2014-03-17
ISSUE-9   2014-05-05
ISSUE-10  2014-07-30

and queries

Query 1

status was Resolved by "username" DURING ("2014-01-01","2014-01-30")

which returns issues

ISSUE-1,ISSUE-3,ISSUE-4,ISSUE-5,ISSUE-6

Query 2

status was Resolved by "username" BEFORE "2014-01-30"

which returns issues

ISSUE-1,ISSUE-2,ISSUE-3,ISSUE-4,ISSUE-5,ISSUE-6

In documentation is written:

The "WAS" operator is used to find issues that currently have, or previously had, the specified value for the specified field.

so DURING and BEFORE should return the same results but as I see they don't or maybe I'm wrong and DURING should return only issues ISSUE-5 and ISSUE-6. These are only example issues but what can be wrong in my real JIRA which works very similar?.

I reindexed issues but it didn't help.

I have JIRA sources but I cannot find where it is implemented, then I would check it. Maybe somebody knows, I would be grateful.

Thanks for any response.

Andrzej

[Udo Brand · Accepted solution]

For issue-5 the status was during ("2014-01-01","2014-01-30") resolved. But after that period it still was resolved.

What you are looking for is

Status changed to resolved during ("2014-01-01","2014-01-30")

[Andrzej Warycha]

Yes indeed, "changed" operator is much more predictable. This is what I needed.

Thank You.