Saved Filters
Licences that have been inactive since before 4 April 2023 may lose any saved filters and other preferences due to the app's ongoing performance and maintenance improvements. To mitigate this and ensure that saved functions and filters continue to work, you must have reactivated your license by the end of June 2023.
You can access your Enhanced Search JQL queries that have been saved as filters from the top left tab section of the Enhanced Search page, namely Created By You and Shared With You. Any of your saved filters can be shared with other users. However, only the owner of a filter can make edits to it.
Recently, we've made some performance and reliability improvements, which means we do not update the search results for Enhanced Search saved filters that have not been used in Jira for 2 months or more. Specifically, the term 'using' the saved filter refers to viewing it in a Jira search, a dashboard or an agile board powered by the filter, or other such instances, such as being part of a Confluence macro that uses the filter. Note that viewing the search results for those saved filters within the Enhanced Search app does not count as actually using them.
Modify or transfer filters
Modify shared filters
If you share a filter with another user, they can only view the JQL. In order to modify the filter, they will need to contact the owner of that filter or create a new filter using the JQL.
Transfer ownership of a filter
When transferring ownership of an Enhanced Search filter, ensure the original owner continues to have view permission for the filter before completing the transfer. If the original owner loses access after ownership is changed, the filter may be deleted. This is because the system cannot verify the new owner’s Atlassian account ID during the transfer unless the previous owner still has permission to view the filter.
From here, you can understand and work with saved filters in several ways:
| Function | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Created By You/Shared With You | Indicates filters that are private or shared with you. Any of your saved filters can be shared with other users, however, only the owner of a filter can make edits to it. |
| 2 | Sort By | Use the drop down list to sort filters alphabetically, by filters that are not synced automatically, or by the most recently created filters. |
| 3 | Show details/Hide details | View or hide the owner of a shared filter and other basic information. |
| 4 | Refresh Filter | Click the refresh button to manually update a filter that you own. Sync interval refresh Your search results update automatically. However, if a filter search exceeds the sync interval period of five minutes, then a manual refresh will provide the most up-to-date results. |
| 5 | Shared/Private | Indicates that this is, or is not, a shared filter. You can edit either of these types of filter. |
| 6 | Delete Filter | Click Show details to delete a saved filter. You can only delete a filter that you own. |
| 7 | New Filter | Create a new filter search. |
| 8 | Edit Filter | Modify an existing saved filter's details, including how it is shared. |