Complex Filter searches in Cloud - possible? (e.g. detecting nested filters)

[Iain McCarthy]

Referencing filters from other filters is not uncommon in our instance, is there a way to determine if a filter is "unreferenced" by other filters beyond removing it and seeing what breaks?

I see some answers detailing SQL query of hosted instances but that's not available for Cloud - ideally we'd like an intuitive way to search for filter strings that contain other strings, filters, or subqueries. 

Thanks! 

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Iain McCarthy 

I do not believe there is anything built into Jira Cloud to do that.  A couple of work-around options are to:

• investigate the marketplace for addon apps for purchase to help manage filters
• call the REST API functions to figure this out: https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/1000.824.0/#api/2/filter
  • Specifically, call the method to get all the filters and then repeatedly call the method to get the filter details and review the results
  • However...if you own all of the filters, you simply call the Get My Filters method to do this in one step

Neither of these may indicate if a filter is used by a dashboard, so check the marketplace if you need to check that also.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Iain McCarthy]

Thanks Bill, appreciate the response and suggestions - will explore our options.