{"id":790,"date":"2025-08-08T14:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/?p=790"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:09:38","slug":"add-custom-search-engines-to-browser-e-g-jira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Add Custom Search Engines to Browser (e.g. Jira)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>About Keyword Search<\/h1>\n<p>\u201cKeyword Search\u201d 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 \u201ckeyword\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when I type t XYZ-1234 in my address bar and hit enter, I get redirected to Ticket number \u201cXYZ-1234\u201d in Jira. Using w Something Something, I\u2019ll search in Confluence directly.<\/p>\n<p>Search configs for different tools:<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Service<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">URL<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Confluence<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><code>https:\/\/mywiki.atlassian.net\/wiki\/search?text=%s<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Jira<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><code>https:\/\/myjira.atlassian.net\/jira\/search?searchString=%s<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Jira only Unresolved tickets<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><code>https:\/\/myjira.atlassian.net\/jira\/search?searchString=Unresolved%20%s<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Jira direct JQL<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><code>https:\/\/myjira.atlassian.net\/issues\/?jql=%s<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Keyword Search Tips for Jira<\/h2>\n<p>If you have enabled the Smart search in Jira you could search in the address bar for stuff like:<\/p>\n<pre><code>t XYZ unresolved Incident whatever<\/code><\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li>t: keywoard for Ticket search<\/li>\n<li>XYZ: will extend search to project = XYZ <\/li>\n<li>unresolved: will extend search to resolution = unresolved <\/li>\n<li>Incident: will extend search to type = incident<\/li>\n<li>whatever: search text will be text ~ whatever<\/li>\n<li>and there are many more other options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>How to configure Keyword Search<\/h1>\n<h2>Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Brave, \u2026)<\/h2>\n<p>In the Settings go to \u201cSearch engine\u201d \u2192 \u201cManage search engines and site search\u201d (chrome:\/\/settings\/searchEngines).<\/p>\n<p>Under \u201cSite Search\u201d you can add custom search engines. \u201cShortcut\u201d is the keyword you want to use:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/custom-search_chrome-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/custom-search_chrome-1-300x210.png\" alt=\"Chromium \u201cAdd Site Search\u201d dialogue\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Firefox<\/h2>\n<p>You can add it in search at the settings:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/custom-search_ff.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/custom-search_ff-300x242.png\" alt=\"Firefox custom search\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Keyword Search \u201cKeyword Search\u201d 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 \u201ckeyword\u201d. For example, when I type t XYZ-1234 in my address bar and hit enter, I get redirected to Ticket number \u201cXYZ-1234\u201d&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/?p=790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Add Custom Search Engines to Browser (e.g. Jira)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chloesoe.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}