Error on Environment field set

Question

I am getting an error for "environment" field  while submitting the request with following JSON. Environment is not a custom field and id in the api is also "environment'. Anybody can tell me what is wrong here:

{
    "fields": {
       "project":
       {
          "key": "projectkey"
       },
       "summary": "[entry.summary.escapeJSON]",
       "description": "[entry.description.escapeJSON]",
 "environment": "[entry.environment.escapeJSON]",
       "issuetype": {
          "name": "Incident"
       }
   }
}

error message:

* com.atlassian.sal.api.net.ResponseException: Error communicating with Jira, {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"environment":"Field 'environment' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown."}} Used JSON: '{ "fields": { "project": { "key": "projectkey" }, "summary": "gf", "description": "trt", "environment": "yryr", "issuetype": { "name": "Incident" } } }' Request to url = url

Earl McCutcheon · Answer

Hi Deepak,

Thanks for the confirmation, and since it's on the correct screen this means we gotta track down the "Unknown" portion of the error.

Generally when this error occurs and is not related to the screen it's going to be either a permission conflict or a syntax related error in the call.

First and this is a quick check, verify the project level permissions permissions allow the user you are submitting the request as to complete the action from the UI, exe edit the issue and update the field.

Then it could be an issue with the user/token formatting used to submit the call, check out this article and verify the settings on the authorization credential

Are you using a Application to pass the call like PostMan or are you doing a direct curl call to the endpoint, either way can you send me the full syntax of the call or a screenshot of the application settings you are using making sure to obfuscate the sensitive details like your base URL, auth token and username, while also doing a GET on the same endpoint to verify that results of the GET have a matching syntax to the POST and wether the GET is successful or not.

EXE POST to /rest/api/2/issue:

curl -D- -u EMAIL:API-TOKEN -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "fields": { "project": { "key": "projectkey" }, "summary": "gf", "description": "trt", "environment": "yryr", "issuetype": { "name": "Incident" } } }' -X POST http://INSTANCE/rest/api/2/issue

Regards,
Earl

deepak kalsi · Answer

The error is still there.

deepak kalsi · Answer

@Earl McCutcheon  Thank you for reply.

Yes, the Environment field is present for the Incident(issue type) create issue screen.