Quick search and basic search - Jira Tutorial

- [Instructor] In this video, we'll discuss Quick search and Basic search. We'll identify the ways to search in Jira, use Quick search and use Basic search. In Jira, there are many ways to view a project's progress. You can use project boards, searching, which we're going to discuss here, reports, and dashboards. There are a few ways to search in Jira. One is Quick search, which is a text search of issues, boards, and projects. Basic search, which uses user interface elements to search for issues. Advanced search, which uses a text-based search called JQL to search for issues. Filters, which are convenient saved searches. And quick filters, which limit the issues that are visible on a board. Searching is important because you can adapt your Jira experience to your team's desired process. A good search is usually going on behind the scenes of a specific view of your project. Next, we will discuss Quick search. Quick search is a global search that can search for issues, as well as other things, such as projects. Here, we see "search" in the cloud version of Jira. When you click on the Quick search, you will initially be shown recent items. As you begin typing in Quick search, you will immediately begin to see results. In this case, we've entered "item," and you can see that there are three issues on our Jira site that have the word "item" in one of their text-based fields. You can use the capitalized "NOT" keyword to exclude terms. In this case, we're excluding the number one, which excludes the "add item 1" issue. You can use the capitalized "OR" keyword to search for issues containing one keyword or another. In this case, we're searching for issues with either the word "item" or "sample" in one of their text-based fields. Next, we will discuss Basic search. Basic search is done with a row of user interface elements, as shown here. In this case, we're looking at all issues, so none of the user interface elements are selective. We can limit the search. For example, here we are limiting the search to just issues in project A. Basic search also includes a text box, so you can search the fields of issues for certain values. If the field that you're interested in searching for is not shown, you can select the More dropdown and search by other fields. You can search for other fields, such as priority, as we're doing here. In this case, we're searching for issues that have been updated within the last three days. You can see that Basic search makes date-based searches like these quite easy. Here's a review of what we've discussed. Quick search can search the text of issues, board names, project names, and filter names. Basic search is a user-friendly way to search for issues.