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What is Enhanced Search for Jira Cloud?

The Enhanced Search for Jira Cloud app provides advanced JQL function search capabilities, or queries, in Jira Cloud. You can modify or extend Enhanced Search for Jira Cloud's library of useful JQL functions. Alongside the JQL functions are JQL keywords that can be used within those JQL searches.

In essence, the terms Enhanced Search and JQL queries (which are advanced searches that are made up of JQL functions and keywords) mean the same thing.

Before you start

Initial Synchronisation

You must carry out an initial JQL Keyword sync once only after installing Enhanced Search. The length of time that this sync will take is based on the following calculation:

(<number of issues in instance> * 0.00029) / 50

Based on this calculation, we can estimate a timeline for your initial sync. For example, if your instance has:

  • 1,000,000 issues we estimate it will take 5.8 days to complete the initial sync.
  • 2,000,000 issues we estimate it will take 11.6 days to complete the initial sync.


JQL Keywords

JQL Keywords can be used in both the Enhanced Search screen under Apps > Enhanced Search or within Jira's issue navigator.

Below are just some examples of how you can use Enhanced Search for Jira Cloud JQL Keywords:

  • Use numberOfAttachments to find issues that have a specified number of file attachments.
  • Use numberOfSubtasks to search for issues that have a specified number of subtasks.
  • Use commentedOn to find issues that have had a comment made on them on a specified date.

JQL Functions

Enhanced Search for Jira Cloud's out-of-the-box JQL functions are available to all users but can only be used on the Enhanced Search screen under Apps > Enhanced Search. 

Below are just some examples of how you can use Enhanced Search for Jira Cloud JQL functions:

  • Use epicsOf to query on epic links, such as finding all epics that have unresolved stories.

  • Use issuesinEpics to find all stories for open epics in a project, and then look specifically at the status of issues, such as ‘in progress.’

  • Use linkedIssuesOf to return linked issues, such as all unresolved issues that are blocked by open issues.

To find more information and purchase Enhanced Search for Jira Cloud, visit the Atlassian Marketplace. 


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