Connect Jira to a web-app

[Mister Kat]

Hello,

I have a node.js web-app added to jira as user-installed app.

My app has some simple data:

{name: process_1},
{name: process_2},
{name: process_3}

What I need to do is:

1. Add a custom field named "tl_process" to the New Issue jira form

2. Have tl_process field list all the data from my app, eg: "process_1", "process_2", "process_3" as selectable values

2.1 Note: these values should be supplied to jira by my webapp

3. When a user creates new jira issue with tl_process value process_2 for example - my webapp should receive a notification about it. Then I will set my data to:

 {name: process_1, active: true}

What would be the best course of action to follow here?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

As "your web app should supply the data to Jira", you'll need to define the tl_process field as a label - that's the only field that accepts new content from outside the admin UI.

[Mister Kat]

What do you mean by "from outside the admin UI"?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

To add options to a custom field, you need to be an admin, and you have to do it in the UI (i.e. in a browser) - there's no REST or remote calls for it.

[Mister Kat]

What would be your advice then?

Make a custom add-on for the field? Then we will be able to fill it with custom data programmatically, right?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Well, you would, but an add-on will have to talk to Jira over the REST API, and that does not support it yet.

[Mister Kat]

But other add-ons on the Marketplace do have this functionality though!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The only ones I can find don't do it via the REST API.

[Mister Kat]

How do they do it then?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

They implement their own data outside Jira, not amend Jira's settings.