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JIRA Essentials

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA Essentials

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Essentials Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Search interface and options in JIRA


As an information system, JIRA comes fully loaded with features and options to search for data. JIRA comes with three search options:

  • Quick/text search: This allows you to search for issues quickly through simple text-based search queries

  • Basic/simple search: This lets you specify issue field criteria via intuitive UI controls

  • Advanced search: This lets you construct powerful search queries with JIRA's own search language, JIRA Query Language (JQL)

However, before we start looking into the in-depth details of all the search options JIRA provides, let's first take a look at the main search interface that you will be using in JIRA while performing your searches.

Issue navigator

The Issue Navigator is the primary location where you will be performing all of your searches in JIRA. You can access the issue navigator by clicking on the Issues menu in the top menu bar and then select Search for issues.

The issue navigator is divided into several sections. The first...