Advanced Search for Issues Public Preview

[github-staff]

Feedback wanted

Thank you for participating in the advanced search for issues public preview. Please leave your feedback below on what is working well, any bugs you encounter, and what else you’d like to see!

To provide your feedback on other experiences released at the same time, please visit:

• Evolving GitHub Issues - Public Preview #148713
• Sub-issues Public Preview #148714
• Issue Types Public Preview #148715

Writing advanced searches

From the repository Issues page, you can now build advanced queries using the AND and OR keywords, as well as nested queries using parentheses up to 5 layers deep. Here is the existing search syntax documentation for reference.

This search allows you to find issues that are either bugs or have high priority.

is:issue AND ( type:Bug OR label:priority-high )

This search allows you to find issues that were created in the last week that are either bugs or tasks, or medium priority ones you've authored.

is:issue AND created:>@today-1w AND (( type:Bug OR type:Task ) OR ( author:@me AND label:priority-medium ))

Things to note

• Advanced search is not yet available in the API, but only through the UI from the repository issues page. We are working on providing this support.
• The repo, org, and user fields currently function as OR filters when a space is included between them, rather than an AND search as it works for other fields. These fields are not yet supported in nested queries.

Looking for feedback

Please leave your feedback below 👇 on what is working well, what can be improved, and what else you’d like to see!

[eamodio]

When will this be coming to Projects?

[rileybroughten]

Thank you for your feedback! We have this request logged on our end and will keep you all posted with updates for when you can expect to see advanced searching capabilities in Projects! The public roadmap is a great place to follow with for updates on our upcoming releases.

[eamodio]

Hopefully it won't be too long, been dying to use the AND/OR support in Projects.

[paulfenney]

Is there (or will there be) a way to use nested queries to filter based on properties of related issues?

For example if I want to search for "open sub-issues where the parent issue is assigned to me".

Or "issues which have a sub-issue with the blocked label".

[rileybroughten]

Thank you for providing this feedback! Currently there is not a way to search through the issue hierarchy and perform hierarchical searches through both the parent issues and sub-issues. I'll note this request and share it with the team 👍