Update Reporter with Custom Field passed over via API

Question

Hi there,

I am trying to come up with a way to update the reporter field with the value from a custom field.  The custom field is populated with the first and last name of the person who created the incident in Cherwell.  The reporter gets populated with a system name that the API uses when it creates the issue in Jira.

I have a manual automation task that fails all the time.

This is what I have in the Edit issue fields

{
"fields": {
"reporter": {"id": "customfield_10068"}
}

What should I have in order to replace reporter with the name value in the customfield.

thanks

Hana Kučerová · Answer

Hi @Steven Lees-Smith ,

searching for user using REST API is available, see here. This is the basic endpoint and you should be able to send GET request like this (xxx can be display name of your user):

GET /rest/api/3/user/search?query=xxx

Steven Lees-Smith · Answer

yeh they are all Jira users and currently when the tickets are being checked to reassign the Reporter field is being manually altered to match the Cherwell name that is passed over via the API.

I have been ratting around the API to see if there was a way to identify the ID based on a matching 'display name' or the like but with no success.

Hana Kučerová · Answer

Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible. Reporter field is working with user accounts and AFAIK you need to obtain the user's id, but you've got only text information about name.

Are these users, who you are trying to store, Jira users? Are you able to change the way, how the data about the user are stored to the Jira issue? If so, maybe you could be able to obtain information about the user's id using Jira's REST API and use it for setting the reporter.