search in worklogComment field does not return expected result

[Emil_Walczyk]

I need to check whether my team fills Work Description field. I thought I could search through issues checking whether the worklogComment field has "No description" value but I'm not getting the results I wanted.

I used advanced search:

assignee = currentUser() and worklogComment ~ "\"No description\""

and I'm getting the

"No issues were found to match your search" 

reply where I have intentionally created an issue assigned to myself, logged work and left the Work Description field unfilled which leaves the field with "No description" text on default.

Where's the catch? Please advice.

[Randy · Accepted solution]

try:
 worklogComment is empty

[Emil_Walczyk]

Actually that return no result. And when I put a specific string in the Work Log Description fields, say "test123" and look for it with:

assignee = currentUser() and worklogComment ~ "test123"

it doesn't get anything either.

[Randy]

Is it actually assigned to you when you test the jql?  If you remove the assignee condition in your JQL do you get the issue returned?

e.g.

worklogComment ~ "test123"

[Emil_Walczyk]

Hi Randy,

yes: worklogComment ~ "test123" returned jira issue I was looking for. It seems that no assignee is necessary for that search.

[Alexander Eck [Tempo]]

You can of course also search for

worklogAuthor = currentUser()