How can I set the value of a checkbox (0 or 1) with Jira Automation?

Question

I have a Jira Product Discovery project which has a field of type "checkbox". What I would like to do is set the value of the checkbox to either `checked` or `unchecked` which I understand to be represented as 1 or 0 respectively.

I can't easily access this with `Edit issue` in Jira Automation, the field is not available. (Jira says it's because checkboxes are sortable but not searchable.)

So, advanced mode. I've tried the following JSON to set the value of the custom field — which I retrieved from looking at https://{mysite}/rest/api/latest/field — but it is erroring.

{"fields":{"customfield_12267":”1"}}

Any ideas why?

Matt.Stratford · Answer

I have solved my own problem. Referring to the API documentation gave me an idea:

{"update":{"customfield_12267":[{"set":1}]}}

Matt.Stratford · Answer

Hi Barnali, thanks for the input.

Unfortunately it didn't work. I now get a different error:

(Specify a number for the custom field (below 100,000,000,000,000) (customfield_12267))

I guess it's reading the 1 as a string or something?

Matt

Barnali Putatunda_lza0ju · Answer

Hi Matt,

Try formatting this way:

{"fields":{ "customfield_12267" : [{ "value" : "1"}] }}