Unable to give story points when creating a subtask

Question

Hi,

I am trying to send a post request to jira rest api to create a new subtask but I am not able to edit/ store story points.

There is no key-pair available to send data about the story points.

Am I doing something wrong or is there no solution to it?

Here is my Request JSON -

data={
   "fields":{
    "parent":{
       "id": task_id
    },
    "project":{
       "Id":projectid
    },
    "summary":message,
    "description" : msg,
    
   
    "issuetype":{
       "id":"5"
    }}}

response = requests.post(url="{}/rest/api/2/issue/".format(server),json=data, headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},auth=(username,password))

Alexey Matveev · Answer

It means that the Story point field is not on the subtask screen. Go to project settings -> screens. Find the create screen for the subtask issue type and add the Story Points field there.

Yashica Gupta · Answer

Hi Alexey,
I am trying to create a new subtask but sending this field throws an error. I am able to update the issue using this field but not during creating a subtask.

Any solution for it?

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Hello,

Have a look for an answer here:

https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-to-update-customfield-of-an-issue-using-rest-api/3874

you need to define the id of your Story Points field and then add to the field part something like this:

"fields": { "customfield_10006" : 3 }

In the example above 10006 is the id of the Story Points field .