Basic graphical mode

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By default the search bar is shown in graphical Basic mode. You can switch to JQL by pressing the Advanced link.

Any filter can be saved as User, Board or Global filter. See more on Plan you work using user, team or global filters.

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Filter status

Image Removed Filtering is disabled (not active)

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Tasks on the board or backlog can be filtered using a well known Search Bar from the Issue Search screen.

We’ve added some extra features:

1. Status indicator

Filtering status indicator Image Added shows if the filtering is active or not.

Search

Perform search using selected criteria or JQL query.

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2. Clear button

Clears currently used JQL filter. If the clear is dimmed selected filters or JQL in advanced mode.

Dimmed clear label means the filter is not set.

1. Filters menu

Use this menu to access user, board or global filters and forget about Quick Filters.

See detailed overview of the feature here:

Plan you work using user, team or global filters

Advanced JQL mode

The Advance mode allows users to filter the board using JQL queries.

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The Agile Tools & Filters fully supports JQL wildcards. Please look at the Atlassian documentation for more details.

For more details checkout the JQL wildcards documentation

• Query terms

• Term modifiers

• Boosting a term: ^

• Boolean operators

• Grouping

• Escaping special characters: \ or \\

• Reserved words

• Word stemming

• Limitations

• Next steps

More info:Search syntax documentation

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver073/search-syntax-for-text-fields-861256241.html

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• Complex JQL may not be able to use Basic view and the search bar will automatically switch to Advanced JQL Mode

• The "Auto-update search results-filtering" Jira option is disabled on the search barSearchBar. After you selected a value from a combobox the Update button has to be pressed to apply the filter.

• Sorting using ORDER BY JQL clause is not supported and will be ignored.

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