Create multi-select custom field with options using rest-api in jira server 8.4

[Fayaz Abdul]

Hello,

I am trying to create a multi-select custom field with options like test1,test2,test3 using rest-API in Jira server 8.4.

Using https://jira.com/rest/api/2/field 

raw(JSON)

{   "name": "ReTest field",

    "description": "Custom field for testing",   

    "type": "com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:multiselect",   

    "searcherKey": "com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:multiselectsearcher"

}

But there is no options in it.

Please help me to create with options using rest api.

Thank you

Fayaz

[Surya U N]

Not sure if this would help you now. Might help someone else!

There's a work-around that solved this issue.

1) Create the custom field using POST /rest/api/2/field and body json as you do.

2) After the custom field is created (it'll be created without options), you can POST to /rest/globalconfig/1/customfieldoptions/{custom_field_id} with the body json as below:

[{"name":"option1"}, {"name":"option2"}]

[john_cougar]

Hi Surya, this was helpful but didn't actually work on the later versions of Data Center, due to a missing tag. You need to prefix the body JSON options list with a literal "options" tag, viz:

"options":[{"name","option1"}, {"name", "option2"}, ...]

It took me a lot of searching to find this, and the idea of adding the tag sprang from someone's implementation of this against the new version of Cloud REST API. But I can confirm that it works on Data Center.

Also note that you must append "setOptions" to the URL command. Viz:

rest/globalconfig/1/customfieldoptions/{custom field id}/setOptions

So the curl command to set the options of an existing custom select field would go like this:

curl -D- -u "<username:pwd>" -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck" http://<your_host_baseurl>/rest/globalconfig/1/customfieldoptions/{customfield_nnn}/setOptions?os_AuthType=basic -d '{"options":[{"name":"option1"},{"name":"option2"}]}'

[freatt]

Hi @john_cougar

Thanks for posting this update!

When Jira 10 was released, this broke our test generation and now I finally stumbled over your update which got things working again!

Thanks,

Fredrik

[Elifcan Cakmak]

Hello,

I think that's not possible at the moment. I found this related ticket about the issue:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-36112

It's still in gathering interest status. Although you can check out plugins for this issue like:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217643/extender-for-jira?hosting=server&tab=overview

Regards.

Elifcan

[john_cougar]

Hi Elifcan, It is possible, I have just tested it on Data Center, and there is a fair bit of stuff like this for Cloud. I confess it did take some digging, and I was almost discouraged by the claim that using the path:

/rest/globalconfig/1/customfieldoptions/{custom_field_id}/setOptions 

... is unsupported, but it does work for me. I'm still checking to see if there's a way to ADD additional options without wiping out the original ones but getting closer!