Basic Search - Select All

[elizabethhannaford]

Is there any way when doing a basic search that you can have all items in a particular search field ticked and then just remove the ones you dont want. Eg if I select Component can I have all available components automatically ticked and then just remove the ones I do not want

[Nic Brough _Adaptavist_ · Accepted solution]

I'm afraid that would not work for most Jira installations, so, no, it's not a good idea, and hence, has not been implemented.

For small systems, it would be ok. But imagine a Jira that's grown beyond "small" - say 20+ projects, with a mean-average of 5 components. You've now got 99 components to de-select, with the Bell curve peaking around 98.7. This really is a vile thing to do to your users, please, don't.

You really should be searching for positives, not defaulting to "everything and then have to de-select". Humans don't think like that, they much prefer "select something to search for".

[elizabethhannaford]

Can we please have this added to the list of improvements for Atlassian as it really would be helpful

[Nic Brough _Adaptavist_]

You can raise it at jira.atlassian.com

But I suspect that it will be closed as "won't do" because it really cannot be described as an "improvement" for the reasons I've already given.

[lukasz spychalski]

+1 for implementing this feature - if I'm understanding correctly, the feature would be similar to the 'Select All' option on Excel filters and would be especially useful with a large pool of options. Don't really see how this is not a positive, if it is optional.

[Nic Brough _Adaptavist_]

It is already "optional" - you can do it by going over all the choices and selecting the ones you need.

[lukasz spychalski]

Yes, but, having to select 63 out of 64 options every time, gets old quickly, and could easily be fixed. However, I now realise I can get around this with JQL.

[Nic Brough _Adaptavist_]

Yes, but having to deselect 63 of 64 options every time gets old quickly.  This remains a very poor way to try to do this.