Automation: Create new issue with project given as user input

Thorsten Kamann_yivqgk

Hello,

I am trying to build an action to create an issue in another project. The challenge is here that the user can choose in which project the issue should create.

For this, I created an action with a manual trigger. There is a prompt with a drop-down with the name of enabled projects.

My rule looks like:

But if I am executing the action, I got this error:

I tried it with the project key instead of the project name, too, with a similar result.
Has anyone an advice how to achieve this?

Thanks
Thorsten

Piet Pieters

Hey @Thorsten Kamann , 

You need the project ID as smart value to create issues.
You could make a lookup table to match the user readable name to the correct project ID, and create the issue with that. 

You can find the project ID by going to the setting of the specific project, last part of the URL is the project ID. 

yourBaseURL/secure/project/EditProject!default.jspa?pid=10703

 

Hope this helps!