JQL Functions

JQL Functions



datesBeyond

 

datesBeyond("Time_Frame", "Date_Field_Name_1", "Date_Field_Name_2")

 

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datesBeyond

Return all the issues whose time difference between "Date_Field_Name_1" and "Date_Field_Name_2" is greater than or equal to "Time_Frame"

JQL Context

issue in/not in

Time_Frame

Time frame can be w, d, h, m and separated by spaces.

  • w: week

  • d: day

  • h: hour

  • m: minute

Example: "1w 2d 3h 4m"

Date_Field_Name_1&2

Supports

  • "due": issue due date

and any other Date Picker custom fields

JQL Example

issue in datesBeyond("1w", "Estimated Start", "Estimated End")

datesWithin

 

datesWithin("Time_Frame", "Date_Field_Name_1", "Date_Field_Name_2")

 

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datesWithin

Return all the issues whose time difference between "Date_Field_Name_1" and "Date_Field_Name_2" is less than or equal to "Time_Frame"

JQL Context

issue in/not in

Time_Frame

Time frame can be w, d, h, m and separated by spaces.

  • w: week

  • d: day

  • h: hour

  • m: minute

Example: "1w 2d 3h 4m"

Date_Field_Name_1&2

Supports

  • "due": issue due date

and any other Date Picker custom fields

JQL Example

issue in datesBeyond("1d", "Estimated Start", "Estimated End")

dateTimeBeyond

 

dateTimeBeyond("Time_Frame", "DateTime_Field_Name_1", "DateTime_Field_Name_2")

 

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dateTimeBeyond

Return all the issues whose time difference between "DateTime_Field_Name_1" and "DateTime_Field_Name_2" is greater than or equal to "Time_Frame"

JQL Context

issue in/not in

Time_Frame

Time frame can be w, d, h, m and separated by spaces.

  • w: week

  • d: day

  • h: hour

  • m: minute

Example: "1w 2d 3h 4m"

DateTime_Field_Name_1&2

Supports

  • "created": issue created datetime

  • "updated": issue updated datetime

  • "resolved": issue resolved datetime

and any other DateTime Picker custom fields

JQL Example

issue in dateTimeBeyond("1w", "created", "updated")

dateTimeWithin

 

 

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dateTimeWithin

Return all the issues whose time difference between "DateTime_Field_Name_1" and "DateTime_Field_Name_2" is less than or equal to "Time_Frame"

JQL Context

issue in/not in

Time_Frame

Time frame can be w, d, h, m and separated by spaces.

  • w: week

  • d: day

  • h: hour

  • m: minute

Example: "1w 2d 3h 4m"

DateTime_Field_Name_1&2

Supports

  • "created": issue created datetime

  • "updated": issue updated datetime

  • "resolved": issue resolved datetime

and any other DateTime Picker custom fields

JQL Example

issue in dateTimeWithin("3d 8h", "created", "updated")

epicTree



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epicTree

Return all epics with those given epic issue keys, all issues linked to those epics and all sub-tasks of those issues linked to the epics

  • at least 1 epic issue key and up to unlimited epic issue keys in JQL statement

JQL Context

issue in/not in

Arg: Epic_Issue_Key_N

Support all Jira Epic issue keys

JQL Example

issue in epicTree("Data Storage", "System Config", "Security")

 

FieldValueMatches

 

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JQL: FieldValueMatches

Return all the issues whose specific field value matches the "Regex_Pattern"

JQL Context

issue in, issue not in

Field_Name

Support any text-based fields. i.e. "Summary", "Description", ' text field (single line)', etc.

Regex_Pattern

Support any regular expression patterns

JQL Example

issue in FieldValueMatches("summary", "[hm]at") will return all the issues whose summary contains hat or mat

 

issueLinkType

 

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issueLinkType

Return all the issues that have a certain type of issue link

JQL Context

issue in/not in

Issue_Link_Type

Support all issue link types. i.e. "blocks", "is blocked by", "duplicates", "relates to" etc.

JQL Example

'issue in issueLinkType("clones")' will return all the issues whose issue link type is "clones"

membersOfRole

 

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membersOfRole

Return all the issues where a specified user is in a specific project role.

JQL Context

  • creator in/not in

  • assignee in/not in

  • reporter in/not in

  • voter in/not in

  • watcher in/not in

Project_Role

Support all Jira project roles

JQL Example

assignee in membersOfRole("Administrators")

preStatusContainsAll

 

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preStatusContainsAll

Return all the issues whose historical statuses (excluding current status) include status_A and status_B and status_C and ... and status_X

JQL Context

issue in/not in

status_X

Support all Jira workflow statuses

JQL Example

Four example issues with their workflow transition history:

  1. TK-1: Open

  2. TK-2: Open → In Progress

  3. TK-3: Open → In Progress → Under Review

  4. TK-4: Open → In Progress → Under Review → Rejected → In Progress


'issue in preStatusContainsAll("Open, In Progress")' will return TK-3 and TK-4

 

Automating high volume queries may result in performance degradation of your Jira instance. It is recommend that the StatusWas JQL statements are used ad-hoc, and not for automation or high-volume workflow actions.

preStatusContainsEither

 

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preStatusContainsEither

Return all the issues whose most recently previous status is status_A or status_B or status_C or ... or status_X

JQL Context

issue in/not in

status_X

Support all Jira workflow statuses

JQL Example

Four example issues with their workflow transition history:

  1. TK-1: Open

  2. TK-2: Open → In Progress

  3. TK-3: Open → In Progress → Under Review

  4. TK-4: Open → In Progress → Under Review → Rejected → In Progress


'issue in preStatusContainsEither("Open, In Progress")' will return TK-2 and TK-3

 

Automating high volume queries may result in performance degradation of your Jira instance. It is recommend that the StatusWas JQL statements are used ad-hoc, and not for automation or high-volume workflow actions.

preStatusWas

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preStatusWas

Return all the issues whose most recently previous status is status_A

JQL Context

issue in/not in

status_X

Support all Jira workflow statuses

JQL Example

Four example issues with their workflow transition history:

  1. TK-1: Open

  2. TK-2: Open → In Progress

  3. TK-3: Open → In Progress → Under Review

  4. TK-4: Open → In Progress → Under Review → Rejected → In Progress

'issue in preStatusWas("Rejected")' will return TK-4

 

Automating high volume queries may result in performance degradation of your Jira instance. It is recommend that the StatusWas JQL statements are used ad-hoc, and not for automation or high-volume workflow actions.

timeBeyond

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timeBeyond

Return all the issues whose sum of time spent in certain statuses is greater than or equal to "Time_Frame"

  • At least 1 status and up to 3 statuses in the JQL statement

  • If Status_A isn't an issue's historical status, the time spent for that issue in Status_A will be 0

  • It won't return the issue if all the given statuses aren't that issue's historical statuses

JQL Context

issue in/not in

Time_Frame

Time frame can be w, d, h, m, s and separated by spaces.

  • w: week

  • d: day

  • h: hour

  • m: minute

  • s: second

Example: "1w 2d 3h 4m 5s"

status_A&B&C

Support all Jira workflow statuses

JQL Example

issue in timeBeyond("1d 2h 30s", "Open")

timeWithin

 

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timeWithin

Return all the issues whose sum of time spent in certain statuses is less than or equal to "Time_Frame"

  • At least 1 status and up to 3 statuses in the JQL statement

  • If Status_A isn't an issue's historical status, the time spent for that issue in Status_A will be 0

  • It won't return the issue if all the given statuses aren't that issue's historical statuses

JQL Context

issue in/not in

Time_Frame

Time frame can be w, d, h, m, s and separated by spaces.

  • w: week

  • d: day

  • h: hour

  • m: minute

  • s: second

Example: "1w 2d 3h 4m 5s"

status_A&B&C

Support all Jira workflow statuses

JQL Example

issue in timeWithin("1h", "In Progress")