JIRA REST API for Comment ADD , NotifyUser paramater not available?

Question

Still pretty new to the JIRA REST API.

JIRA  v7.3.8 is what I am up against currently.

I can do a Comment ADD but it appears NotifyUser parameter is NOT available.

It would really be nice to insert a comment and not have emails sent around as in my case sometimes a comment needs inserted for sake of things and no need to send out emails for it.

Andy Heinzer · Answer

Hi Steven,

There are a couple of different existing feature requests for Jira that I think might encompass what you are looking for:

* https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-2565
* https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-40522

Either one of these, if implemented in Jira, could provide some level of granular control over when notifications would go out in Jira.  However at the moment, there is not a way to selectively send out notifications for actions.  The current work-around for this would be to change the notification scheme on the project prior to executing the actions in place, and then revert that notification scheme the project is using after this has been completed.  I understand this isn't really a great workaround, but I would recommend watching and voting on those issues, and perhaps leave a comment on those.

Regards,
Andy

steven chesser · Answer

I get that it emails and just does it depending on the project settings.

I am just saying it would be nice if was eventually possible one day to set it up so you can OPTIONALLY <key word here> to not trigger emails to fire out. And not be a setup where it always does, or always does not.

Nothing more.. nothing less.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

The project has been set up to notify people on comments.  That's it, as Andrew says, there's no conditional on it (there are improvement requests logged to ask for conditionals), and Jira doesn't care how the comment is made.  Someone adds a comment, the project emails people about it because it's been told to.