Cascading Select List: Create Child Options Via the API

Question

Reading through this documentation I can't figure out how to create the child options via the API

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-custom-field-options/#api-rest-api-3-field-fieldid-context-contextid-option-post

I was able to create the list of the first options, but not sure how to do the 2nd part

Bill Sheboy · Accepted Answer

Hi @Jeffrey Bistrong

I have not tried that in a while, and I recall you add the "optionId" attribute to refer to the parent.  For the example you show, if "8.0" with an id "13094" is the parent, adding a child could be:

{
  "disabled": false,
  "optionId": "13094",
  "value": "stuff after 8.0"
}

Later when you view the complete list, you will see the parents have an id only and the children have an id and an optionId for their parent.

Kind regards,
Bill