Issue Key

[Mujhahid karim]

Can you help me understand why the edit key isn't incremental, sometimes the number jumps around

[Leon Gumba]

Hi @Mujhahid karim ,

The number part of the issue key is increased incrementally with each new issue created, but sometimes the issue key numbers might not always be sequential.

If an issue is created and then deleted, the number assigned to that issue is not reused. For example, if you create issues ISSUE-1, ISSUE-2, and ISSUE-3, and then delete ISSUE-2, the next issue created will be ISSUE-4 and not ISSUE-2.

Cloning and moving issues to another projects can also affect this.

You generally don't need to worry about issue key numbers in Jira not being strictly sequential. The key numbers being non-sequential does not affect the functionality of Jira.

[Dirk Ronsmans]

Don't forget subtasks.

They also get a number in the sequence and might not always be visible in your normal queues.

[Mujhahid karim]

How can I see what really happened with these numbers that don't appear, because in fact this project already started with issue 12 and jumped to 19, then followed a sequence and made small jumps again.

I realize that this may not affect the functioning of the system, but internally it creates a certain question as to why the numbers aren't there.

[Leon Gumba]

@Mujhahid karim go to the Search page and try to search for those issues using JQL:

project = "ALD" AND key in (ALD-13, ALD-14, ALD-15, ALD-16, ALD-17, ALD-18)

If those issues have been deleted, they will not appear in your search results.