Extended Search is a new way to perform complex searches in Jira. It improves your search experience over Subqueries in the following ways:
✅ You can see the results immediately without any additional indexing steps.
✅ You can save the query as a Jira filter and use the filter everywhere in Jira.
✅ As with standard Jira filters, you can control the filter permissions.
✅ Saved filters perform better than Subqueries and are more reliable.
How do I start using new Extended Search functions?
Deprecation of Subqueries feature
From October 2023, the Subqueries feature is no longer available in JQL Search Extensions. This change affects customers with saved JQL subqueries who installed the app beforeApril 2021.
The 6-month deprecation plan was communicated to these customers with recommendations to convert any subqueries through Extended Search before the feature was deprecated. Extended Search provides an equivalent function for every subquery JQL keyword with better performance and reliability.
There is an equivalent function for every Subquery JQL alias. The full list of available functions is listed on the Extended search page. Have a look at the next section to see the mapping between Subqueries JQL aliases and new functions. It’ll help you to create your new queries.
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The big difference is that you can use the nested query “component=UI” directly in your main query and without the need to create and index a subquery first. You can even narrow down you your query further:
issue in epicsOfChildrenInQuery("component=UI") and project in (ACME, SP)
To use the query anywhere else in Jira, simply save it as a filter.
Functions mapping
The following table lists Subquery JQL aliases and their corresponding Extended Search functions. Use this mapping to migrate your subqueries.
Subquery JQL call | Extended Search function call |
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epicOfQuery=”subquery” |
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issuesFromEpicsInQuery=”subquery” |
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linkedByQuery=”subquery” |
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linksQuery=”subquery” | same as linkedByQuery above |
parentOfQuery=”subquery” |
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subTaskOfQuery=”subquery” |
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issuesInQuery=”subquery” | Simply save your Extended Search query as a Jira filter and use the filter query:
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