Send a payload to an api that will create an issue here
The documentation may NOT apply to both Jira Server and Jira Cloud
Create an issue Jira Cloud platform Developer Reference
visit the following links inside your browser:
https://lowranceworks.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/createmeta
- to see stuff
https://lowranceworks.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/createmeta?projectKeys=FP&expand=projects.issuetypes.fields
- to see stuff under your project (FP = project key)
the links above used the api version 2, let's use the newest version (3)
https://lowranceworks.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/createmeta
https://lowranceworks.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/createmeta?projectKeys=FP&expand=projects.issuetypes.fields
{
"fields": {
"project":
{
"key": "FP"
},
"summary": "Issue created via REST.",
"description": "bla bla bla goes here",
"issuetype": {
"name": "Test bug"
}
}
}
create an issue POST https://lowranceworks.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/
{
"fields": {
"project": {
"key": "FP"
},
"summary": "Jira Rest API via Postman.",
"description": {
"type": "doc",
"version": 1,
"content": [
{
"type": "paragraph",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "description"
}
]
}
]
},
"issuetype": {
"name": "Story"
}
}
}
results in error:
{
"errorMessages": [],
"errors": {
"summary": "Field 'summary' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown.",
"description": "Field 'description' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown."
}
}
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