Issue description style format for Status and Expand by REST API

Maksym Shtatskyi

Hi.

I use REST API to update issues in Jira.

I want to support some format of data in issue description. There are Status and Expand:

When I create description by Jira with such styles like this:

and get issue by rest api: /rest/api/2/issue/SP-295?expand=renderedFields

I have rendered value of description like:

<p><font color="#6554C0"><b>[ STATUS VALUE ]</b></font> </p>

<p><b>Expand title</b></p>

<p>Expand description</p>

And not rendered:

{color:#6554C0}*[ STATUS VALUE ]*{color} 

*Expand title*

Expand description

But when I send same value for description by request:

PUT /rest/api/2/issue/SP-295

{"fields":{"summary":"JF234","issuetype":{"id":10001,"name":"STORY"},"description":"\n{color:#6554C0}*[ STATUS VALUE ]*{color} \n\n*Expand title*\n\nExpand description\n","priority":{"name":"Medium"}]}}}

I will get same value in rendered and not rendered description field, but it looks different:

How can I achieve same visualization value for description after update it by REST?

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Helllo @Maksym Shtatskyi 

Those things called 'Status' and 'Expand' are macros. The output of those macros is rendered within the Description field and it is that rendered output that you can retrieve via GET /rest/api/2/issue/SP-295?expand=renderedFields, not the macros themselves. As you have found, you can retrieve that rendered output in either HTML or wiki markdown format.

What you PUT into that Description field was just some wiki markdown content, so what you see via the GUI as a result is exactly what you put there.... some content, using wiki markdown format, being rendered correctly.

There are no v2 REST API endpoints for Jira Cloud that will place macros within a rich text field and also set the values for those macros.