Is it possible to update an issues column

Question

Ive been searching around for a few hours and cant seem to find out if its possible to update an issues column from say todo to in progress using the api.

Pramodh M · Answer

@Crimson Moore

Welcome to the community 🙂

You mean transition the issue

Here it is

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-change-the-issue-status-by-REST-API-in-JIRA/qaq-p/850658

API reference here

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-transitions-get

Let me know if you have any queries

Thanks