In JIRA, how do a find all issues related to a user, across all projects. A simple query search yields only full text results. i.e. only issues where the name is mentioned and not if the name has been assigned, has reported, has been cc’d etc.
My intention here is to find tickets related to me for stock accounting...
You should be able to use the "FIND ISSUES" option across the top bar, select "New" to create a new filter (which by default spans all projects), and select your name from the relevant "Issue Attributes" dropdown boxes.
Like Greg mentioned, you can use the "FIND ISSUES" -option. By default, you can only do searches by the issue reporter or by the assignee. But if your Jira installation has the Jira Toolkit plugin installed, you can run a search by participant. This is a good feature if you need to find the issues which you have helped to resolve, but aren't anymore assigned to you.