Jira Summary contains text filter

Question

I need to filter issues whose title (Summary attribute?) contains a text "config". So what I did is:

1. More->Summary
2. Enter the text "config"

But for some reason I only got issues whose title contains "config" or "configs". I didn't get the issues whose title contains e.g. "configuration". What's wrong?

Chessboard

Answer 1

Try this JQL for your filter:

summary ~ "config*"

The wildcard should help pick up config as well as extensions like configuration and configs.

Biarritz

It works! Thanks! But what's the reason of the original problem? Is it a bug? – Chessboard

@Chessboard if you click Advanced after trying your original steps, you'll see that the JQL generated for your search is summary ~ config order by lastViewed DESC. It might be a good feature request for Atlassian to add the * wildcard to these searches by default to prevent confusion. – Biarritz

The ~ operator is not really a "contains" operator though in the conventional sense, so behavior can be very unexpected when using a text string containing multiple words. It's more of a "contains one or more of the words in any order" operator. If I run summary ~ "Some Random Text" then Jira returns a ticket with the summaries "Some Other Stuff" and "This One Random" issue. – Delainedelainey

yep - still waiting for jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-21372 to be addressed... – Biarritz