When you create an advanced query in Jira, the URI contains the id of the most recent issue. For example, after creating a JQL query, the browser is redirected to a URI that starts with /browse/STE4-2350:
If you bookmark this query, the issue id in the URI is automatically highlighted. This is fine at first, but over time, as more issues are added to Jira, the one at the top of the list when the bookmark was created gets pushed further down the list. Eventually, when you load the bookmark, the issue highlighted by default is no longer relevant.
For example, when this query was created, STE4-2462 was at the top of the list:
A few days later, opening that query bookmark shows newer issues, but the STE2462 is still highlighted:
This adds minor friction when you have to click to select the most recent issue after you just opened the report.
There’s no option in Jira to change this behaviour, but you can coax Jira to highlight the most recent issue in the list by default by manually removing part of the Jira report URI
Edit the URI (for example, the browser bookmark, or a link you’re sending to a colleague) to replace the issue id and the preceding browse/ and issue id with issues. For example, if this is the URI for the report…
https://jira.ste4.site/jira/browse/STE4-2462?jql=project%20%3D%20STE4…
…then replace browse/STE4-2462 with issues, like this:
https://jira&periodste4&periodsite/jira/issues?jql=project%20%3D%20STE4…
Now, when Jira loads the new loads that page, it redirects it to a new URI, and the most recent issue highlighted at the top. Much more convenient!
Tested with:
- Atlassian Jira 9.4.3