Dates in JIRA API

[Nuha]

Hi JIRA aficionados,

I want to keep track of dates for each work item of a project in JIRA. For example: 

In JIRA API, I found dates like "created", "updated", "resolutiondate", "duedate", and "statuscategorychangedate". Is there any other dates that are available in JIRA API where I can inquiry and extract from the API? (For example maybe timestamp/date of transition of a work item between status "To Do" and "In Progress" and so on)
Let me know if you have more questions if I am not being clear. Really looking forward for any help~

Kind regards,

Nuha

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Nuha 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

The dates you have found are examples where there will be only one value at a time for the date for each issue.

For other dates, like dates of transitions between statuses, there can be multiple values. For status transition specifically there is no limit to the Status values or variations on transitions because Jira is customizable.

Jira doesn't hold those in readily accessible individual fields like the others. Instead that information is recorded in the change history of the issue. There are APIs for access the change history of an issue so that you can extract and parse that information.

If there are a subset of specific dates you want to track, you could create custom fields for each of those dates and use Automation Rules to populate them when the related event occurs.