How to limit jira search "text ~" to summary, description, and comment fields only?

[Danny Hendargo]

In JIRA 5.0.7, entering 'abc' into the quick search box is equivalent to searching: "summary ~ abc OR description ~ abc OR comment ~ abc".

In JIRA 6.2.7, it is equivalent to searching "text ~ abc" and with that, JIRA searches all fields. With several hundred custom fields, this search takes a very long time. Sometimes it will end in proxy error, other times JIRA will say "No result found" when there are actually some valid result. In short, it is unreliable and of little use.

Searching for "summary ~ abc OR description ~ abc OR comment ~ abc" is actually very fast in JIRA 6.2.7. It will be nice to constrain "text ~" to a set of fields. Is there a way to do (hack) this?

Sorry if duplicate and thanks for sharing your thoughts / ideas on this.

[Philippe Aubin]

You can't as far has i know, but you can use a filter that does what you need : 

summary ~ <value> AND/OR description ~ <value> AND/OR comment ~ <value>