Set customField of User Schema Type via API (manager Picker)

[Rajesh Ale]

Hi,

we have a customfield which is of user schema type and am trying to populate that via API. 

But unfortunately its accepting only accountId and not name,emailAddress or any other.. 

The issue is to populate that field, I need to make one call to get accountId of that user and then make another call. (Don't want to make multiple calls) 

Working:

  "customfield_12007": { "accountId": "5af0ec83eee87f2exxxx"}

any alternative way to populate in one single Api call.  

[Vijay Dadi]

Hello,

The custom field which is of user schema type, yes it always takes the user account id as input but that is how it is working.

You can have an automation to make web request to user.

https://<JIRAURL>/rest/api/3/user/search?query={{object.Email}}

then you can use the response to set account id.

"customfield_12007": { "accountId": "{{webResponse.accountid}}"}

Hope this helps !