Assigning Accounts when creating issues with the Jira API

[Ian Kenney]

I am trying to use the API to create issues within JIRA (with the TEMPO plugin enables) and I am not clear on how accounts should be specified.  

Account is currently set up as a required field, and when creating issues using the JIRA UI, it is automatically populated from the account associated with the project (we only currently have one account associated with a project).

After some playing around, I have managed to successfully create issues when I switch off validation (i.e. uncheck the options under "Make Tempo Account Custom Field required in JIRA Field Configurations" ), by setting the account field to a string value in the format 

"customfield_10002":"My Account Name (A001)"

Where:

• "customfield_10002" is the name of the account field
• "My Account Name" is the name of the account required
• "A001" is the key of account

However when I switch the validation back on I get an error message 

"errors":{"customfield_10002":"Account is required."}}

when I send exactly the same data.

Can you advise the appropriate way to set the account field when creating issues through the JIRA API

thanks 

Ian

[rdiazalbertini]

Looks like i have the same issue:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/40341873/how-to-set-account-while-creating-issue