In Jira Cloud, is there a way to set the issue types for a specific project with REST?

Question

I am trying to setup a project template or using REST give my users a function to create their projects with a bunch of configuration setup for them.

I cannot seem to find any way to set the issue type scheme or to set the issue types for a new project.

Charles Pham · Answer

I don't believe updating a project's issue type is currently supported. Refer to this open ticket https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-59948

This will need to be done manually via the Administration UI.

One thing I can suggest is to just associate all the available issue types to this project. That way you're able to create the issues via REST without any problems.

Marco Seeba · Answer

Hi Charles. This is helpful but if a project does not support issue types we need, is there a way to add them to the project via REST?

Charles Pham · Answer

Take a look at createmeta

https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/cloud/#api/2/issue-getCreateIssueMeta

Returns a list of projects and the issue types that are associated with them.

Based on that information, filter out what is required (i.e. show only issue types for project X)