Automation: Create new issue with project given as user input

[Thorsten Kamann]

Hello,

I am trying to build an action to create an issue in another project. The challenge is here that the user can choose in which project the issue should create.

For this, I created an action with a manual trigger. There is a prompt with a drop-down with the name of enabled projects.

My rule looks like:

But if I am executing the action, I got this error:

I tried it with the project key instead of the project name, too, with a similar result.
Has anyone an advice how to achieve this?

Thanks
Thorsten

[Tessa Tuteleers · Accepted solution]

Hey @Thorsten Kamann , 

You need the project ID as smart value to create issues.
You could make a lookup table to match the user readable name to the correct project ID, and create the issue with that. 

You can find the project ID by going to the setting of the specific project, last part of the URL is the project ID. 

yourBaseURL/secure/project/EditProject!default.jspa?pid=10703

Hope this helps!

[Thorsten Kamann]

Ok, but I don't get the ID via the URL. In my instance, the URL only contains the project key but not a numeric ID:

https://nnn.atlassian.net/jira/servicedesk/projects/ITH/settings/details

[Tessa Tuteleers]

Hi @Thorsten Kamann , 

in that case, you can use the API. 

It is described here. The 3rd value should be the ID  

Let me know if that works for you! 

[Thorsten Kamann]

Yes, this works fine. Thanks for the hint.