About Keyword Search

“Keyword Search” is a feature of modern browser that allows you to use a specific search engine (instead of your default search engine) by prefixing your search query with a “keyword”.

For example, when I type t XYZ-1234 in my address bar and hit enter, I get redirected to Ticket number “XYZ-1234” in Jira. Using w Something Something, I’ll search in Confluence directly.

Search configs for different tools:

Service	URL
Confluence	https://mywiki.atlassian.net/wiki/search?text=%s
Jira	https://myjira.atlassian.net/jira/search?searchString=%s
Jira only Unresolved tickets	https://myjira.atlassian.net/jira/search?searchString=Unresolved%20%s
Jira direct JQL	https://myjira.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=%s

Keyword Search Tips for Jira

If you have enabled the Smart search in Jira you could search in the address bar for stuff like:

t XYZ unresolved Incident whatever

• t: keywoard for Ticket search
• XYZ: will extend search to project = XYZ
• unresolved: will extend search to resolution = unresolved
• Incident: will extend search to type = incident
• whatever: search text will be text ~ whatever
• and there are many more other options

How to configure Keyword Search

Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Brave, …)

In the Settings go to “Search engine” → “Manage search engines and site search” (chrome://settings/searchEngines).

Under “Site Search” you can add custom search engines. “Shortcut” is the keyword you want to use:

Firefox

You can add it in search at the settings: