How can I filter by reporter on a JIRA board?

[Alexandra Moraru]

Hi,

I am trying to add a filter on a JIRA board to allow to see all issues raised by a specific reporter - is this possible and what jql would you recommend I use?

[Michael Wohlgemuth · Accepted solution]

reporter = yourdesiredusername

[Alexandra Moraru]

Thanks, this worked! I had to create a filter for each of the 15 users, but it works!

[Michael Wohlgemuth]

What? Nooooo, nononono. You asked for ONE user :D

If you have more than one, please consider using a group and the JQL function membersOf("group") or the following syntax (which i dont recommend compared to the "group option"):

reporter IN (dev1username, dev2username, dev3username) 

Really, a group would work wonderful for this and would be easier to maintain imo.

[Alexandra Moraru]

I am using the group as a subfilter for the board.

Ideally, I'd love to just add another button as the 'Assignee' one (in the screenshot below), but based on the 'Reporter', since I want to have the option to switch views based on each reporter I have in the specific defined group.

[Michael Wohlgemuth]

I cannot for the life of me find the option to add a button like you have on my board. So no, unfortunately i cannot help you further here besides pointing you to a plugin i found that might (!) provide the functionality you need.

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I would love to know where you got that button from though. I only find options to add quickfilters and none of them give me this user picker field. 

[Alexandra Moraru]

Unfortunately, the 'Assignee' button (just like quick filters) seems to come with the creation of any new board, I spent a lot of time finding a way to modify that one since I could not add another one.

Thanks for the plugin! Going through it now.

[Ismael Altenhofen]

4 years later and this is still not possible... 

[Guillaume Cougard]

2 years later and this is still not possible...