Epic Link from Java API

Question

Hi Everyone,

Can some one please share the code that works for creating Epic Link programatically. I have tried so many options and nothing works. Doesn't give any error, how ever my Epic link is not showing on the screen even though I have configured the Epic Link screen configs correctly. Please help on this!

sahan kanuwana · Answer

Also, if you have any idea of this post, please share.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/JIRA-questions/Get-Jira-Advanced-Properties-programatically-jira-text-field/qaq-p/636330

sahan kanuwana · Answer

Great Thanks Tayyab,

I can create the epic link from JIRA UI without any issue for the same user. So I assmue same thing should be able to do using my program. Isn't it?

String custFieldValue = "PT-01" //This is my Epic Key
CustomFieldManager cfManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager();
CustomField jiraCustomField = cfMgr.getCustomFieldObjectByName(Constants.EPIC_LINK);
MutableIssue epicIssueObject = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager().getIssueObject(custFieldValue);

if(epicIssueObject != null) {
newJiraIssue.setCustomFieldValue(jiraCustomField, custFieldValue);
} else {
log.info("Epic Link " + custFieldValue + " is not available.");
}

Tayyab Bashir · Answer

Being an admin user has nothing to do with project level user permissions. Admin permissions are just for other administrative stuff.

Make sure the user you are using is added in the project role CCB.

And the user should be CCB in all epic's project and the target issue's project as well.
Kindly also share the code that you're doing this with?