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JQL wildcard search of version list like fixVersion

Brent Webster

The basic question: Is there a way to do a wildcard search of a list rather than just in a text field. We are maintaining several major releases of software at a time(when a big customer says NO to the next major release and pays for support on the current release, who are we to say). i.e. example of unreleased versions:

12.0.3, 12.0.4, 12.1.1, 12.2.0

11.0.14, 11.0.15

9.1.1. 9.1.2

My PV manager wants to create a wildcard of only the 12.* versions. Currently, the only way to get around this is to individually list each of the 12 versions. i.e.

AND fixVersion in ("12.0.0", "12.0.1","12.0.2")

If I try 'AND fixVersion in ("12.*")', it results in the error: The value '12.*' does not exist for the field 'fixVersion'.

This is a pretty basic search capability so I'm hoping, it's just a misunderstanding on my part.

Accepted answers

Brent Webster

Looks like there is no answer yet but I keep getting those nagging emails that this issues is unresolved. If you are reading this then your best hope is to vote for JRA-24152.

All comments

Andrew Frayling

Hi Brent,

From JIRA 4.3 onwards you can use ff:12* (for Fix For Version) and v:12* (Affects Version) in the Quick Search box (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA043/Using+Quick+Search), but it looks like this is not impemented in JQL yet and is an open feature request (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-24152)

Wildcard searches are available in JQL (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA043/Advanced+Searching#AdvancedSearching-CONTAINS), but only for free text fields.

Hope that's of some help,

Andrew.

Brent Webster

Thanks for the quick reply but it misses the mark.

The Quick Search method is more of a macro that substitutes the current list of 12.* versions into the search of affectedVersion or fixVersion lists. I can't save it as a dynamic filter but rather a hardcoded list of versions at the time I involved the Quick Search.

As for CONTAINS, as you stated, it only works for text based fields.

I'll left this query open for a while, in hopes that someone can propose a workaround.

BTW, I voted for JRA-24152, thanks

Brent Webster

Looks like there is no answer yet but I keep getting those nagging emails that this issues is unresolved. If you are reading this then your best hope is to vote for JRA-24152.

boardtc

The mentioned JIRA (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-24152) references a solution using JQLTricks which works for me, e.g.

fixVersion in versionMatches('Sprint.*')

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

Brent,

What do you mean by custom field lists? Looking at the original question, this should be possible by JQL Tricks.

However, it still remains paid. So can't help with that

Brent Webster

As far as I can understand the commerical JQL Tricks (grrrrrr, I hate being nickel'd and dime'd to death) cannot handle custom field lists but now I'm getting daily nag emails to close out this issue so I'll answer it.

Scott Harman

There was a free plugin, which supported VersionList - but I can't find it (as it's disappeared during an upgrade yesterday)

boardtc

http://www.j-tricks.com/jql-tricks-plugin.html

Brent Webster

I ended up using the Script Runner plugin which has several JQL functions including matchVersion. Works great.

grisevg

You can do ">=" and "<" to limit certain version range.

For example "fixVersion >= 0.24.0 AND < fixVersion 0.25.0"

Hubbitus

Unfortunately it will provide different results see https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-22995

Hubbitus

So, there no working solutions without paid extensions?

Jack Nolddor _Sweet Bananas_

Unfortunately you cannot use wildcards using native Jira methods.

You can use a FREE app called JQL Booster Pack and use the versionMatches() JQL function to get the requested functionality

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Examples:

• Find issues affected by versions that ther name starts with 'v1' i.e. 'v1.1.0', 'v1.2', 'v1.1.6', etc:

affectedVersion IN versionMatches("v1.*")

• Find issues fixed in versions that ther name contains 'alpha':

fixVersion IN versionMatches(".*alpha.*")

• Find issues affected by versions that ther name starts with 'SNAPSHOT' i.e. 'v1.1-SNAPSHOT', 'v1.5-NIGHTLY_SNAPSHOT', etc:

affectedVersion IN versionMatches(".*SNAPSHOT")

Leo_pwkday

Starting from Jira 7.9.0 you can use the following expression to search for "12.*" versions from your example

fixVersion ~ "12.*"

Arun Makhija

Thanks, the above worked for me as well, however I was trying another trick but didn't work

issueFunction in issueFieldMatch("labels = <myLabel>", "fixVersion", "FY-18 *")

It errors saying couldn't find the fieldname fixVersion, whereas it's a valid field. Has anyone tried this to do wildcard search in non-text fields

Syntax - issueFieldExactMatch

issueFieldExactMatch (subquery, fieldname, regexp)

Hubbitus

Could you please point to the doc on that future?

Leo_pwkday

See Advanced searching - operators reference documentation for CONTAINS (~) operator.

Daniel Waddington

On JIRA Cloud:

The operator '~' is not supported by the 'fixVersion' field.

Steve_vslqqp

This is server-only. Not for cloud.

Zaur Suleymanov_lq3sgc

It is 2021 now, and it is really astounding that such a basic function to search versions by approximate name is still not possible in Jira...

Ronald Teune

It's perfectly possible, although a little hidden in the accepted answer. Please see my comment of Aug 12, 2020 .

Zaur Suleymanov_lq3sgc

Nope, that does not work now, with Cloud jira. I tried: fixVersion (and fixVersions) = "ABC .*" and many other combinations and it did not work.

Ronald Teune

And what kind of expression do you use? Your example here doesn't look like the one I suggested above (standing on the shoulders of giants, BTW):

issueFunction in issueFieldMatch(" ", "fixVersions", "FY-18 .*")