There is a way to add a filter in a task description or as a comment ?
Asked by iskoutari:

There is a way to add a filter in a task description or as a comment ?

I want to see the results of the filter in task either in the description or in the comment (or in any other way).

Preferably without saving the filter. I want to add directrly tha JQL in the task.


Answers:
author: Influential Eliot
body: This would be great.

The ability to (for example) type something like:

```
/filter status = "In Progress" AND Project = "PRJ"
```

Which would then return the results into the text:

1. PRJ-93 - This Project Yo!
2. PRJ-23 - That Project Yeah!


author: John Funk
body: Hi [@iskoutari](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3766304) - I am not completely understanding your question. Can you provide a detailed explanation of exactly what you are trying to do?

comments: author: iskoutari
body: Hi,  
for example: I have a jira task and I want to add in description or in comment a list of tsks based on filter (eg "Software Version\[Labels\]" = 1.67.0 ORDER BY status ASC, assignee ASC). But the software version is increasing every week, so I do not want to create a new filter every week.


author: John Funk
body: I am not aware of a way to dump the results of a filter into another field. If the values were already in a field, you could copy those into the Description field or into a comment, but not the list.

[@Bill Sheboy](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1685313) - Any wizardry here?


author: Bill Sheboy
body: Hi [@iskoutari](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3766304) and [@John Funk](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7148)

I noted two ideas here:

1. dynamically refresh a filter over time
2. put the results of that filter into a field like Description, or add a comment

#1) For the dynamic filter, the ability to do that depends on *how you determine something is your next software version* . If that is related to fixVersion, it could be easy as checking the [earliest unreleased version](https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/advanced-search-reference-jql-functions/#Advancedsearchingfunctionsreference-earliestUnreleasedVersionearliestUnreleasedVersion--). Or, if the value is always increasing, you could run a query to get the latest value using [lookupIssues](https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-general/#Smartvaluesgeneral---lookupIssues--) and JQL to sort the results. For example if you only used this for stories:

project = myProject AND issueType = Story ORDER BY "Software Version\[Labels\]" DESC

Then grab the [first value](https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-lists/#Smartvalueslists-list.first) from the result in lookupIssues to use in your query:

"Software Version\[Labels\]" = {{lookupIssues.first}} ORDER BY status ASC, assignee ASC

#2) To next put the results into a field like description or a comment, you could use a second lookupIssues call with that built JQL, and then format the results in your field:

{{#lookupIssues}}  
\<a href="{{url}}"\>{{key}} - {{summary}}\</a\>  
{{/}}  

Please note that lookupIssues only supports [some issue fields](https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/automation-actions/#Automationactions-Lookupissues). If you need other fields, you will need to call the REST API and parse the results into a list. Also note that lookupIssues can only return up to 50 issues; if there are more they will be missing from your list.

Kind regards,  
Bill


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