How can I search by issue number *alone* from the JIRA front end?

[Phebe Brown]

Is there anyway to search issues by the issue number alone?  I tried all the suggestions in https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-do-I-search-by-Issue-Number/qaq-p/323920 but they only work if you use the project key as a prefix (i.e., PKEY-1234 as opposed to 1234).  I can do this in sql on the back end no problem, but of course, the user who wants to find issues by number within a group of projects is not able to do this.

SQL (what would the equivalent be in JQL?): 

select bb.pkey, aa.issuenum

from jiraissue aa, project bb
where issuenum = 123
and aa.project = bb.ID

Thanks in advance

[Shannon S]

Hi Phebe,

This is not possible to do in Jira, but we do have a feature request for it:

• JRASERVER-40557

I recommend that you comment on that case with your use case and watch and vote on it to help show your interest in this feature for the future.

Let us know if you have any questions about it.

Regards,

Shannon