Does moving story to other jira project trigger webhook event "issue_moved"?

Question

When I move a story to a jira project that's integrated - I receive a webhook event "issue_moved".
However when I move a story from an integrated jira project - I do not receive a webhook event. 
These are my observations.

So can I somehow track issues moved FROM jira project(doesn't matter where it is moved to) using webhook events?

Mohamed Benziane · Answer

My guess is when the update is done, it fire an event, inside this event the issue belong to the target project so the update belong to this project and not to the source project. So i still believe that if you want to track it you need REST API or in your project, create a new field that will store the old issue key (populate by automation).

So with a jql like this "project = ABC and newcustomfield is not empty" you will be able to track all issue moved to your project.

Anatoliy Mazur · Answer

Hi,
Thanks.
The webhook can be triggered when issues is updated, that is true. That is the case with moving issue to another project. I receive an event with the following data

"webhookEvent": "jira:issue_updated"

"issue_event_type_name": "issue_moved"

So moving issue is in fact an issue update. But the problem is I receive a webhook event only when I move the issue to a project, but not when I move it from a project.
Both should be considered as issue updates, not just one of them. Isn't that a bug?
I can get data using REST API, but I need to get notified by a webhook event, how would I know when to make a request?

Mohamed Benziane · Answer

Hi,

Welcome to the community.

You can trigger a webhook only when issue is created/updated or deleted. Since the old issue key is stored in the history you can try to get the informations you need by REST API.