Update on 18 Dec 2024

Jira 9.12 LTS/ 10.3 LTS Filters are saved with columns and columns order, UI displays filters with their saved columns and columns order.

• Filters are saved in "searchrequest" table,
• columns of filters are saved in "columnlayout" and
• columns and order of columns are saved in "columnlayoutitem"
• UI shows the columns, their orders of filters as expected
  • If the filter is shared with edit rights, a user with edit right can change the columns settings of the filter, this affects all users using that filter. This might confuse the end-users as they may see a different column layout for the same filter at different times if someone else changed it.
  • This is expected, if users does not want column layout to change then they should not give edit rights.

Current behaviour

1. Create/edit a filter query;
2. Set columns to display in query results;
3. Save the filter.

Result: column preferences aren't saved, and the displayed result gets back to default column settings. Columns need to be edited again.

Requested change

Save the column configuration as well as the query.

Workaround

Columns can be edited after the filter is saved. Note, though, that JIRA won't recognize modifying the columns as a change to the filter, and will keep on displaying the Save As button. You'd need to make and revert a dummy change in the query too in order to have the button change to Save and store the changes made to the columns.