JIRA CLI Can I update an issue referencing a custom field, rather than the issue key?

[James Hall]

Hi Bob et al,

I have a 10k issue project to track, and I would love to be able to do the CLI actions by referencing one of my custom variables, or the standsard Summary field, rather than the issue id. Is this possible?

Is it possible to change the issue id if I keep them unique?

E.g. instead of ... addComment --issue SST-115 --comment "hey yo"

I would like to update with something like addComment --Summary '1123434' ...

Currently I thought I would just dump all issue details into a csv using --action getIssueList --project SST_Test > AllIssues.csv and then use Ruby to match the issue key to my unique custom field, and run the updates from there.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated,

James

[Bob Swift]

Perhaps if you create a JQL query that finds all the issues (or just one) that that matches your custom field value or summary value (etc....), then you can easily do something like:

--action runFromIssueList --search "<jql>" --common "--action addComment --issue @issue@ --comment ""<comment>"" "