Why fetching custom field default values required Administer Jira permission?

Question

Hello,
we are trying to fetch list of fields with its default values. We use following endpoint:

GET /rest/api/2/issue/createmeta

However, as also described in this question: https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-to-get-default-value-for-message-custom-field-via-jira-rest-api/45002, response only contains hasDefaultValue property, and even if this property has value true, it does not contain defaultValue property.

We tried to fetch default values using following endpoint:

GET /rest/api/3/field/{fieldId}/context/defaultValue

but it requires Administer Jira global permission.

Is there any reason why it is restricted to administrators? And why doesn't /createmeta return defaultValue field? Is there any other way to access fields defaultValue?

Best regards,
Jakub Zimny

Jakub Zimny · Answer

Hello, thank you for the answer. We use the expand switch, it returns defaultValue for many fields, but it does not return defaultValue for, for example, Paragraph Field (which supports rich text). Do you know if this is intended behavior?

Phumi_ee7asn · Answer

Hi Jakub

It's Phumi here from Atlassian Support.

Can you try using the expand switch like this:

https://your-site.atlassian.net/rest/api/latest/issue/createmeta?expand=projects.issuetypes.fields

It should provide you with a response similar to the following with the "default" value at the bottom:

"name": "Priority",
"key": "priority",
"hasDefaultValue": true,
"operations": [
"set"
],
"allowedValues": [
{
"self": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/priority/1",
"iconUrl": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/images/icons/priorities/highest.svg",
"name": "Highest",
"id": "1"
},
{
"self": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/priority/2",
"iconUrl": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/images/icons/priorities/high.svg",
"name": "High",
"id": "2"
},
{
"self": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/priority/3",
"iconUrl": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/images/icons/priorities/medium.svg",
"name": "Medium",
"id": "3"
},
{
"self": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/priority/4",
"iconUrl": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/images/icons/priorities/low.svg",
"name": "Low",
"id": "4"
},
{
"self": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/priority/5",
"iconUrl": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/images/icons/priorities/lowest.svg",
"name": "Lowest",
"id": "5"
},
{
"self": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/priority/10000",
"iconUrl": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/images/icons/priority_major.gif",
"name": "P1",
"id": "10000"
},
{
"self": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/priority/10001",
"iconUrl": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/images/icons/priority_major.gif",
"name": "P2",
"id": "10001"
}
],
"defaultValue": {
"self": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/priority/4",
"iconUrl": "https://your-site.atlassian.net/images/icons/priorities/low.svg",
"name": "Low",
"id": "4"
}
},