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You can choose from 3 levels:
Performance - gives you an option to easily search through Secure Fields with full JQL capabilities. The possible downside is that anyone will be able to perform search and see for instance values bigger/smaller than given amount, but still will not be able to see the preceise value of the Secure Field. This level enables fast and efficient search.
- Strict - has the same rules as the previous Secure Fields version had - limited JQL search, but harder for unauthorized people to find any information. Once you decide to upgrade to Secure Fields 3.0 all your secure fields will be automatically saved as Strict. We have also optimized search for this level, so if you decide to keep it this way, you will still feel the improvement in speed.
- Disabled - there is no option to search through Secure Fields.
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Take under your consideration that changing configuration will likely demand you reindexing Jira.
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Let's imagine you have two secure fields. One of them is called "budget" and stores strictly confidential financial information you don't want to expose. Second field is called "detailed bug consequence" and contains description of a bug you raised. In the first case ("budget") we recommend using Strict search mode. Using Performance mode in this case may cause that some unprivileged and advanced users can try to examine the field content by subsequent querying for different values, such as budget > 1000 then budget > 10000, etc. They will not be able to see the field content, but issues that meet the condition will be returned in result of the JQL search. In the second case ("detailed bug consequence") you can use Performance mode as it's not possible to guess the long description. |
If you decide not to upgrade or stay with the Strict level of Security Search, you can still improve your efficiency search.
Searching in "Strict" Search Mode
The Secure Field plugin adds "issue in search" function to the JQL. This function takes from 2 to 4 arguments rounded by quotation marks.
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