define severity in post body

Question

I was trying to create a request using JIRA, which needs severity to be present

Example:

by post body is

{
"fields":{
"project":{
"key": "TEST"},
"summary": "TEST",
"description": "TEST",
"issuetype": {
"id": "101"
},
"components": [
{
"id": "35006"
}
]
}
}

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output comes back as

{    "errorMessages": [],    "errors": {        "customfield_21681": "Severity is required."    }}

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I tried to add severity at multiple places wthin body it is not working

Matthias Gaiser _K15t_ · Answer

My two fellow leaders are asking the right questions.

In order to help you a bit more, according to your error message, the severity in your Jira has the custom field id: customfield_21681

Now you need to know what type of field it is - is it a text or a select field or something else? That's influencing how you need to send it to Jira. This example assumes it's a select field:

{
  "fields":{
    "project":{
      "key": "TEST"
    },
    "summary": "TEST",
    "description": "TEST",
    "issuetype": {
      "id": "101"
    },
    "components": [
      {"id": "35006"}
    ],
    "customfield_21681": {
      "id": "ENTER ID OF THE OPTION"
    }
  }
}

If you need to know the id, you can get it via the createMeta endpoint. Also for more examples, you could check out the create Issue docs.

Cheers,
Matthias.

mrcrandell.sw · Answer

What type of field is severity? Also, try adding it as customfield_##### instead of severity. Might be a typo in how it is listed in Jira.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

How have you tried to send a severity?