How can I create a custom field option using ScriptRunner?

[David Shahbazyan]

I want to add a new option to a custom field from an issue. For example, when an issue is created and a field contains the value "Milk", I want that value to be added as an option to the "Groceries" custom field.

How can I achieve this? Can it be done using ScriptRunner or another approach?

[Jeroen Poismans]

Hi and welcome to the community,

On Cloud also Scriptrunner is dependant on what Atlassian exposes via REST API. But good news! There is a documented REST api doing exactly that:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-custom-field-options/#api-rest-api-3-field-fieldid-context-contextid-option-post

Have a look at the documentation. You can either use HAPI within Scriptrunner (if this particular call is available), if not you can still just do a REST request following the documentation in the link.

[Jeroen Poismans]

As a matter of fact there is an exact example of this in the Scriptrunner library:

https://www.scriptrunnerhq.com/help/example-scripts/add-options-to-custom-field-cloud