PATCH customfield via REST

[Mark Northcott]

Hello all,

I am trying to run a REST API PATCH to update a Jira Align customfield with a new dropdown value, and I am having problems finding the correct format.

The GET returns the following

"customFields": [

    {

      "customfield_90704": [

        {

          "id": 198,

          "value": " High"

        }

      ]

    }

]

However, finding the correct JSON Patch is hard. I've tried lots including the following but nothing seems to work. I think the path is close but then it says the values are not valid. Is this the correct format for  nested values deriving their values from a dropdown?

[{

"op": "replace",

"path": "/customfields/custom-field_90704/",

"value": {"id": "197", "value": "Very High"}

}]

[{

"op": "replace",

"path": "/customfields/0/customfield_90704/",

"value": {"id": 197,"value":"Very High"}

}]

[{

"op": "replace",

"path": "/customfields/:customfield_90704/",

"value": {"id": 197,"value": "Very High"}

}]

Any help would be appreciated.

[Enio Marques Junior · Accepted solution]

Hi Mark! Please try using the payload below:

[
{
"op": "replace",
"path": "/customFields/0/customfield_90704/0/value",
"value": "Very High"
},
{
"op": "replace",
"path": "/customFields/0/customfield_90704/0/id",
"value": 197
}
]

Regards,

Enio

[Mark Northcott]

Thank you Enio, your solution worked perfectly.

I did get another solution from Atlassain but it came up with an error "Not all custom field are active"

[
  {
        "op": "replace",
        "path": "customfields/0",
        "value":
        {
            "customfield_90706":
            [
                {
                   "id": 183,
                    "value": "Very High"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
]

I thought it might be that the field was not active in that story but that was nto the problem ... but who cares, your solution worked :-) 

Thanks again