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Question 4
A Jira workflow contains 3 statuses; To Do, In Progress, and Done.
Dom needs to get all reopened issues and assign those issues to his team. Which of the following JQL does Dom need to use?
(Assume reopened issues will be transitioned to 'To Do' status)
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A
status was not in ("In Progress", "Done") -
B
status = Reopened -
C
status = "To Do" AND resolution is EMPTY -
D
status was Done AND status = "To Do" -
E
status changed from Done to "To Do"
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: D
Explanation
status was Done AND status = 'To Do' will return issues that were in 'Done' status but are now in 'To Do' status. In other words, reopened issues. This is the correct answer.
status = 'To Do' AND resolution is EMPTY will return any unresolved issues in 'To Do' status, including newly created issues. Thus, this is incorrect.
status was not in ('In Progress', 'Done') will return issues that have never been in 'In Progress' or 'Done' status. This is incorrect because reopened issues will always be in 'Done' status previously.
status changed from Done to 'To Do' will return issues that have been transitioned from 'Done' to 'To Do' status in their lifecycle. Therefore, this JQL will return any issues ('To Do', 'In Progress', or 'Done'), as long as they were reopened before. This is incorrect because we are only looking for unresolved reopened issues.
status = Reopened is an invalid status since users only have 3 statuses; 'To Do', 'In Progress', and 'Done'.
Reference: Advanced search reference JQL operators
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