Jira: How to find issues that at some point has been assigned to you

Question

Hi,

We use Jira extensively in our project, but I often have a hard time finding issues that I know I have been working on earlier. Usually if some case is reported that seems familiar to something I have been working on in the past, but I don'tremember exactly what and when.

Usually, an issue is reported, our scrum master assigns it to a developer, the developer fixes it (hopefylly) and then passes it on to the tester (yay, it works!). But then it is no longer assigned to me, and I have a hard finding old issues that i remeber vagely.

I thought perhaps that since it is possible to see the assigned history of an issue, there might be a way to form an advances search/filter that finds all issues that at some time has been assigned to me.

Has anyone done this?

Answer 1

I think what you're looking for is searching by work log which hasn't been implemented yet. You can see the issue here and please vote for it if you want it to be fixed.

Answer 2

Check out JIRA Toolkit plugin - Participants custom field

https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JTOOL/Home

This field allows you to easily track issues that you've "participated in". These are defined to be any issues you've commented on, raised or are the current assignee. See also the [JIRA Extended Participants] plugin.

Answer 3

You can find issues by worklog entries directly in the database:

select distinct ji.pkey from jiraissue ji inner join worklog wl on ji.id=wl.issueid where wl.author='some_username';

I agree this should be implemented in the UI though.

Answer 4

Yes, the JIRA toolkit plugin is the way to go.

~Matt