Cannot edit or view filters

[Micheal Planck]

From the documentation:

"Currently, you can only edit the name of your saved filter. If you want to edit the attributes in the saved filter, you’ll need to create a new one and delete the existing."

What?

A filter is a JQL string. All you have to do is show us the JQL string and let us edit it. There's an entire field for description that no one uses (though they should use to capture the JQL query that defines the filter). Instead, you let us define filters that we then cannot see the definition of. How is this even remotely acceptable?

Do you type your code into a file, feed it to a compiler, and then never expect to see your code again? If you find a bug, do you write your code from scratch again?

Also, the issues screen lets you define and save filters. But there is no way to apply a saved filter from the issues screen; instead, you have to go to the list screen. I cannot even; how can you be smart enough to turn on a computer and not understand what is wrong with this?

Finally: from the filter management screen, I can delete or copy a filter. But since I can't edit a filter, all I can change about the copy is its name. Why would I ever want one filter to have two names? How does this even make sense to anyone on the planet?

I mean this quite seriously: what the **** is wrong with you? How can you mess up something so utterly simple and basic?

[Micheal Planck · Accepted solution]

Don't use the Issues screen. Use the Filters screen from the top left menu bar.

That's the solution.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Hi @Micheal Planck 

What do you mean "you can't see the definition of the saved filters"? Of course you can see the JQL behind your saved filter, modify it and save it. Did you try to do it?

And I'll take you a step further: Even if you try to change the JQL, it will let you save the filter with the same name:

So I'm not quite sure about why you are so angry about. If you could explain more in depth your problem, we'll be able to help you out more.

Cheers,

Alex

[Micheal Planck]

That's on the Filter page. Which I didn't even know existed, because I was looking for Manage Filters, which does not exist anywhere. While looking for that I found a documentation page that clearly states you cannot edit a filter's content, but did not mention that you could do so from a screen other than the "Edit" button on the filter screen.

Yes, from that screen, if you change the filter criteria, you may notice the button change to "Save." But I am not on that screen.

I am on the Issues screen, where it lets me define and save filters. I cannot, however, figure out how to load a filter to that screen. If there was a Load Filter button on that screen next to the Save Filter button, I would never have had any of these problems.

I still don't know how to load a filter to the issues screen, or the list screen. I do not understand why there is an issues screen with a filter system that cannot be used with filters, because you're supposed to go to the filter management page to use your filters.