Create a User field in Assets via the Import API?

[David Foote]

Hi all,

I am building out a mapping schema for an Employee object in Assets. One of the fields I'd like to have is the 'User' type, to hold the Atlassian User Id so I can easily link a given record back to it's Atlassian account.

However, while I am able to create this field via the UI, I am having trouble finding if it's possible to define it in the objectSchema portion of the Assets import mapping.

In looking through the official schema, https://api.atlassian.com/jsm/assets/imports/external/schema/versions/2021_09_15, there is a list for attribute types, but nothing in there seems to be 'User'.

Does anyone know if this is possible or if I am forced to use the UI to define a User field?

[Pedro Arroyo]

It's a limitation and there's an enhancement request for this: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSDCLOUD-10732

[Robert Andersen]

this error I got suggests also that there is no "user" type.

This seems like a unnecessary limitation, as we can import Jira users via id with json file import.