Create ideas with the Jira Product Discovery API

Clayton Read_zk702z

Is this possible yet?
Can we create ideas using the API?

Nick Haller

Hi @Clayton Read ,

There is no public Jira Product Discovery specific API, but the regular Jira Cloud API definitely allow you to create issues (here, ideas) in any project. 

You can check https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-3-issue-post 

I was able to create a JPD idea via Postman using a body such as this:

{

    "fields": {
        "project": {
            "key": "<projectKey>"
        },
        "issuetype": {
            "name": "Idea"
        },
        "summary": "Created via Postman.",
        "description": {
            "type": "doc",
            "version": 1,
            "content": [
                {
                    "type": "paragraph",
                    "content": [
                        {
                            "type": "text",
                            "text": "Hello World"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

 

For more on that formatting - at least related to the description field - these other Community posts might help as well:

Getting Error: "Operation value must be an Atlassian Document"

Operation value must be an object from issue create for description field

 

Something as simply as this should also work too if no custom fields are required:

{
    "fields": {
       "project": {
          "key": "<projectKey>"
       },
       "summary": "API Idea via Postman",
       "issuetype": {
          "name": "Idea"
       }
   }
}