Update EPIC and other Fields without changing the last update date

Question

Hi All,

I'm trying to create some reporting but I ran into an issue where how the stories/bugs/tasks were tracked; epics added were wrong/missing, labels wrong/missing, etc.

The issues were already closed so I don't want to lose the last updated time stamp but I do need to update how they were categorized by updating those fields.

I'm using JIRA cloud and would like to know if there is a way I could script an update to change those fields to the correct values?

Thanks,

Dan_xn2p9q · Answer

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unknown · Answer

Hi Dan,

You can perform some updates/edits on one or multiple issues via REST API, but the REST API calls will need to be authenticated with an account's details (Email and API Token), so from Jira's point of view it's just the same as updating them directly in the web UI. This also means that the updatedDate will be refreshed. Unfortunately, there is no way to edit an issue and not alter the updatedDate.