Updating an issue's status via the rest API

[Andrew Nisbet]

From what I have tried, and read it doesn't look like it is possible to do this. Is that correct? or am I missing something. Really need to try and make this work if it is possible.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You should be able to "post" a "transition".

In Jira, you can NOT update the status. It is NOT a field. It is a human label for the current position of an issue in it's workflow. So, you don't change the status, you move an issue from one to another with a transition.

Look in the docs ( http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/ ) for "transition"

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Nic is right. See http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#id122149

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I don't think it's spectacularly clear that status isn't really a field, and that document is pretty raw and dense. Compound those two factors, and I'm really not shocked it's hard to find! :-)

[Andrew Nisbet]

Thanks, guess I need to RTFM a little more closely.

[Mikhail T]

Jobin, the link you provided no longer contains the anchor... Today's version of documentaion is for 6.1.3 and the link is: https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/6.1.3/#d2e1291