can I do a "comment out" in a JQL statement

[John Pfotzer]

Can you make a comment out situation in a JQL string?   Like you can in html  <!-- text --> 

thanks

John

[Aaron Turner]

I really need something like this.

I'm the "go to guy" for JIRA queries in my company, so I get to make extremely complex filters. I'm talking things like nesting filters in filters 3-4 deep, with each filter full of nested "LinkedIssuesFromQuery" parameters. And I've actually run into the maximum number of parameters that I can put in just one filter.

So yea, Really Complex.

I've been trying to fake comments by putting in parameters that are really just comments. Stuff like " AND summary !~ "This part does blah, for this reason, on this date."

If there was actually a way to Comment, for real, in the jql, I would be so ecstatic.

[Gregory_Randall]

BTW - this is hilarious and brilliant at the same time.  Thx for sharing- I will be doing this.

[Dennis T]

Doing summary !~ in JQL might exclude tickets you want. I use (comment !~ "**Missing labels**" OR commentsCount >= 0) instead.

[Kevin He]

yes, I'm hoping for this feature avialabe soon, it will help me to trace my issues 

[Scarlet Fitness]

any answer to this questions? I need to put a comment on a query to help me track time. 

[rtapayan]

I would love to have this feature as well.

[retcheltapayan]

Same here, hope they will have this feature similar to any other query command.

[Kevin Gordon]

same here .. being able to add comments in any type of coding language is a great feature like in REXX I would use a /* all your comments here */ 

[Deleted user]

Curious. What's the need for the comment out? I don't remember JQL having that feature.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching

[Steven F Behnke]

I don't think it has a comment ability either, you're right. Sometimes it'd be nice to leave comments in a query though, just to be nice to others if a query is complex.

[Chris Hatton]

I need this in order to implement a hack to refresh a JIRA query in Google Data Studio.  I need some part of a JQL query string to change - without affecting its function, so that the sheet refreshes.