How can I find the ID of a custom field in Jira 5?

[Drew Peifer]

I have found multiple articles on how to find the ID of a custom field using the API, but none without it. IMHO this should be a visible attribute when editing or configuring a Custom field.

The only solution I have found so far is to do the following:

• Enter administration section of Jira
• Go to Issues Tab >> Fields...
• View Field Configurations
• hover mouse over "Screens" link (in JIra 4 this worked for the "Edit" link, it is different in Jira 5 though)
• URL preview at bottom of browser will include fieldID=....

Has anyone found an easier solution? This becomes quite a pain if you have many custom fields and have to scroll down and hover over each screen link.

[Christian Selbrede · Accepted solution]

Actually, if you use the REST API Browser and execute the "field" command, or just run http://localhost/rest/api/2/field, you will get a list of all your configured fields, along with their ids.

[VP]

For some reason I don't see all the fields in the response.

I tried requesting through Postman.

[Sunil Cyriac]

This worked. Thank you.

[Karthi O]

To identify the custom field ID:

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1. go to Administration/Custom Fields
2. click on the "Configure" link for the custom field you're interested in
3. in the URL of the Configure Custom Field page, note the number after "customFieldId=" and append it to "customfield_" to build the custom field ID

[Andrew DeFaria]

And if you have the customFieldId and you're looking for the Custom Field name? What do you have to do each and every custom field?

[Noy Eliahu]

Great thanks!

[kishore kr]

thanks !

[Jessica Wolfe]

Excellent solution!

[Nidhi Sharma]

But How I can get the System field ID ?

[Anuj]

/rest/api/2/field : Returns a list of all System fields as well as Custom fields.

[Anuj]

Also you can find these kind of details here https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/latest/constant-values.html

[Mala Benn]

Surely there should be an easier way?

[Imdad KP _Spectrum Groupe_]

/rest/api/2/field

[Julian von Hildebrand]

To find a custom field ID / name I open JIRA exported data (.xml) file (backup file) with Notepad+ and search the value I know. Custom field ID and name are associated on same line.

[rpenkert]

You can access the system field with the equivalent name in english. According to this, the system field id for "description" is "description" . 

[Jobin Kuruvilla _Adaptavist_]

It will still work on edit link, under Administration > Custom Fields - just hover over the Edit dropdown from the cog. Another way is to look into database but that will be even more painful!