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Why search doesn't look into card contents? Why?

sneaky4oe February 22, 2019

Switching to jira after trello feels like a huge downgrade.

One of many stupid issues I faced is that it doesn't search inside the card - it can search for text only in title. Why is there even a search field if I can just use ctrl+F at the same page to look through titles? I need to be able to look for keywords inside the ticket too.

 

Top part of the image - empty search results for an ID
Bottom part - the same board with an open ticket that has this ID in text.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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February 23, 2019

It's because Jira has a lot more power than Trello, with ranges of different (and differentiated, rather than just a blob of text) data, which has a downside that you have to be a bit more "clever" with the searches to cover all the places you might mean.

The quick search field applies a guess at what you might mean, and tries to be fast by focussing on the summaries as those are usually where the most useful human description is.

If a quick search doesn't find something, go to the standard or advanced search.  In the advanced search "text ~ <something>" searches all text-like fields.

sneaky4oe February 25, 2019

Thanks for replying.


https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/quick-searching-861257204.html
From this it looks like the example with "~" will not work?
I tried looking for user IDs with "<ID#>" in quick search - didn't work.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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February 25, 2019

Correct, ~ is a fuzzy search for text.

Mihail Turusov February 27, 2019

Sorry, I still don't get it... If I want to find in quick search just a number/word from ticket's contents, how should request look like?
Tried:

~ <369586>
~ 369586
~369586
text ~ <369586>

sneaky4oe March 17, 2019

So even 
text ~ "369586"
doesn't work in quick search... This is the line advanced search gives me. I guess quick search is there just for the looks then.

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