Unable to find a team when using the Team JQL function in the Jira search page
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Summary
When using Advanced Roadmaps For Jira and configuring teams, you can see them in the Teams page:
But when trying to search for some of them in Jira's Issue Navigator, they might not show up in the auto complete nor return any results if you start typing:
Cause
This happens because only Shared Teams are searchable. Private Teams are not searchable.
Solution
Create a Shared Team and after that, you can add to the Plan by clicking + Add team and choosing the second option: Add existing shared team
Once done, you will be able to search for the team (it will be listed in the suggestions):
Alternative Workaround
While Jira will not include the name of Private Teams on the JQL search it is still possible to search for issues associated to them as long as you have the team ID.
You can get the team ID from the following Advanced Roadmaps with:
- Database query, where The first field is the value to use on JQL
select * from "AO_82B313_TEAM";
Private REST API "/rest/teams-api/1.0/team", as the example below from a lab (notice the private teams are marked as '"shareable": false'
% curl -k -u dalves:dalves -X GET http://localhost:8080/rest/teams-api/1.0/team | python3 -mjson.tool [ { "title": "Shared team 1", "shareable": true, "id": 1 }, { "title": "Shared team 2", "shareable": true, "id": 2 }, { "title": "KBB board Team", "shareable": false, "avatarUrl": "http://localhost:8080/secure/projectavatar?size=medium&avatarId=10324", "id": 3 } ]
Please note private APIs can be revoked in new versions of Jira without notice) :
Once you have the ID of the desired Team, let's say it's 123, use that in the advanced JQL issue search:
team = 123