How to search for issues whose security level is NOT set?

[Paul Anderson]

I recently turned on security levels for a project; new issues now get a default. Now I need to find all old issues for which a security level has not been set. There does not seem to be a way to construct a query that yields this set. If I have security levels named A and B, I can do 'level not in (A, B)', but that returns the empty set.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

[Mark Segall]

Hi @Paul Anderson - This should be possible with the following JQL:

level IS EMPTY

[Paul Anderson]

I just found an answer to my own question. If you do 'level = null', it yields the items for which a security level has not been set. Now that I know this, I can see that the documentation for keywords does mention this.

[DWedekind]

I was just faced with the same question. Great that this forum exists.