Adding time tracking field to subtask while creating issue through rest api

shubham_jain_1hzpcj

I have been using the next-gen project in Jira.

I have added the time tracking field for the issue(sub-task) in issue types menus in its Jira board

{ 
  "update": {},
  "fields": { 
    "summary": "AS Handover u0026 Brief Meeting",
    "issuetype": { "id": "10943" },
    "project": { "key": "JSIDB" },
    "description": { 
       "type": "doc", 
       "version": 1, 
       "content": [ 
         { 
           "type": "paragraph",
           "content": [ 
              { "text": " ",
                "type": "text"
              } 
         ] 
          } ] }, 
    "fixVersions": [ 
      { "id": "36414" } 
     ], 
    "duedate": "2020-05-04",
    "parent": { "id": "259818" },
    "timetracking": { "remainingEstimate": "0", "originalEstimate": 60.0 }      }
} 

I am creating an issue (sub-task) through create issue api - "https://companyname.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/"
and above code-block is the body been sent with the end-point.

It returns me the response with the following error

{ 
  "errorMessages": [],
  "errors": { "timetracking": "Field 'timetracking' cannot be set. It is not     on the appropriate screen, or unknown." 
 }
}

 Any suggestions for the problem mentioned above wherein I can add time tracking values to issue.

Andy Heinzer

Hi,

I understand you're using the REST API in order to try to add timetracking information to an issue at the time of creation.

The error you are seeing is an indication that this timetracking field does not appear on the create screen.  And that part is true, the field is not on the create screen. However because this is next-gen, you can't actually modify the create screen.  You can add that field to the issue type, and you'll need to do that just be able to do time tracking here.  However the timetracking is a different kind of field than others here.

Next-gen does not offer users in the web application the ability to set this on issue creation.  You can also query the metadata endpoint in order to see what fields are available there, more details in GET /rest/api/3/issue/createmeta.

When I do this in my own next-gen project, the timetracking field does not appear here.  In turn I don't see a way in which you could currently set any timetracking value at the time of issue creation here.  Instead you would have to create the issue first, and then you can edit the issue to set that field or call the add worklog endpoint POST /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/worklog to log this time.

 

Does this help?

Andy