How can I set the value of a checkbox (0 or 1) with Jira Automation?

Matt.Stratford March 24, 2023

I have a Jira Product Discovery project which has a field of type "checkbox". What I would like to do is set the value of the checkbox to either `checked` or `unchecked` which I understand to be represented as 1 or 0 respectively.

I can't easily access this with `Edit issue` in Jira Automation, the field is not available. (Jira says it's because checkboxes are sortable but not searchable.)

So, advanced mode. I've tried the following JSON to set the value of the custom field — which I retrieved from looking at https://{mysite}/rest/api/latest/field — but it is erroring.

{"fields":{"customfield_12267":”1"}}

Any ideas why?

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Barnali Putatunda
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March 24, 2023

Hi Matt,

Try formatting this way:


{"fields":{ "customfield_12267" : [{ "value" : "1"}] }}


Matt.Stratford March 24, 2023

Hi Barnali, thanks for the input.

Unfortunately it didn't work. I now get a different error:

(Specify a number for the custom field (below 100,000,000,000,000) (customfield_12267))

 I guess it's reading the 1 as a string or something?

Matt

Matt.Stratford March 26, 2023

I have solved my own problem. Referring to the API documentation gave me an idea:

{"update":{"customfield_12267":[{"set":1}]}}
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