If you stumble over this blog post, chances are that you are a software developer working with Jira on a regular basis.

If that's the case, it's also likely that you get sent Jira ticket ids of this format ABC-1234 on a regular basis. Not a URL ... just the id.

You can then enter this id into Jira's search or manually create a URL from it. Such a URL usually follows this format: https://<COMPANY-JIRA-DOMAIN>/browse/<TICKET-ID>.

But, did you know that you can automate this manual URL conversion step using Edge custom search?

Here's how:

• Find Address bar search engines in Edge's settings.
  • Navigate to edge://settings/?search=manage%20search for that.
• Then add a new entry here:
  • Give it a name, shortcut (j in my case) and a templated URL (The %s part is replaced by the search term/ticket id).
  • 

Now you can simply type j (or whatever shortcut you used) in Edge's address bar, followed by space or tab and Edge will switch to "Search Jira mode".

Now, type or paste the ticket id and Edge navigates to the ticket.

Pretty neat, I use this almost daily.

Before you ask, Google Chrome offers this functionality as well. However, this is left as an exercise for the reader.