Most of our tickets is grouped inside square bracket like [BE], [FE], etc.How can I search subtasks starting with those words? I've tried:text ~ "\\[BE\\]" (empty result)text ~ "\\[BE\\]*" (empty result)text ~ "BE" (empty result)text ~ "BE*" (returns tasks that contains BE* but not tasks with BE inside brackets)

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Most of our tickets is grouped inside square bracket like [BE], [FE], etc.

How can I search subtasks starting with those words? I've tried:

text ~ "\\[BE\\]" (empty result)
text ~ "\\[BE\\]*" (empty result)
text ~ "BE" (empty result)
text ~ "BE*" (returns tasks that contains BE* but not tasks with BE inside brackets)

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is this working?

summary ~ [BE]*

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Hi @Alexander Pappert

Thanks for your answer, but it doesn't work for me. I've tried entering it but got this error:

`Error in JQL Query: Expecting either a value, list or function but got '['. You must surround '[' in quotation marks to use it as a value. (line 1, character 11)`

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@fahminlb33 ok, we have to ignore the first [, try

~ BE]*

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Like • Alexander Gerasimov likes this

or like this:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/search-syntax-for-text-fields-939938747.html

Advanced search: Find all issues that contain the phrase Jira Software.
```
text ~ "\"Jira Software\""
```

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Still no luck. The problem is the text I'm looking for is inside square bracket, from several links on Google, I've come to this topic

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-25092

It seems that up until now we can't search text that surrounded by special characters?

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maybe you can use some script addons (JMCF or automation for jira), to copy the summary into another text field and then shorten it from

[BE] abc
to
BE

You could then use the JQL search

I did something similar with JMCF https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27136/jira-misc-custom-fields-jmcf?hosting=server&tab=overview

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Thank you, I'll look into it.

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found this: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/search-syntax-for-text-fields-861257223.html#SpecialCharacters

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For me, it worked like this :

summary ~ "\\[RRR\\]"

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This one worked for me. All other variations above did not. This is in the "Board Settings" area where I was trying to get some JQL based quick filters created. Example: summary ~ "\\[DRAFT\\]" (But according to the search info above and the results I am seeing, this is really just the same as summary ~ DRAFT because the special characters are not indexed... Sigh.