Create multi-select custom field with options using rest-api in jira server 8.4

Question

Hello,

I am trying to create a multi-select custom field with options like test1,test2,test3 using rest-API in Jira server 8.4.

Using https://jira.com/rest/api/2/field

raw(JSON)

{   "name": "ReTest field",

"description": "Custom field for testing",

"type": "com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:multiselect",

"searcherKey": "com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:multiselectsearcher"

}

But there is no options in it.

Please help me to create with options using rest api.

Thank you

Fayaz

freatt · Answer

Hi @john_cougar

Thanks for posting this update!

When Jira 10 was released, this broke our test generation and now I finally stumbled over your update which got things working again!

Thanks,

Fredrik

john_cougar · Answer

Hi Elifcan, It is possible, I have just tested it on Data Center, and there is a fair bit of stuff like this for Cloud. I confess it did take some digging, and I was almost discouraged by the claim that using the path:

/rest/globalconfig/1/customfieldoptions/{custom_field_id}/setOptions

... is unsupported, but it does work for me. I'm still checking to see if there's a way to ADD additional options without wiping out the original ones but getting closer!

john_cougar · Answer

Hi Surya, this was helpful but didn't actually work on the later versions of Data Center, due to a missing tag. You need to prefix the body JSON options list with a literal "options" tag, viz: "options":[{"name","option1"}, {"name", "option2"}, ...] It took me a lot of searching to find this, and the idea of adding the tag sprang from someone's implementation of this against the new version of Cloud REST API. But I can confirm that it works on Data Center. Also note that you must append "setOptions" to the URL command. Viz: rest/globalconfig/1/customfieldoptions/{custom field id}/setOptions So the curl command to set the options of an existing custom select field would go like this: curl -D- -u "" -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck" http:///rest/globalconfig/1/customfieldoptions/{customfield_nnn}/setOptions?os_AuthType=basic -d '{"options":[{"name":"option1"},{"name":"option2"}]}'