Jira Automation Web Request Rule - Can I send form data?

[Philippa Merrill]

I am using the Jira Automation tool in Jira Cloud. 

I have successfully used this in the past to send custom data via a web request using json. 

However, I now need to send form data using the web request jira automation tool. How can I send form data? 

[Darryl Lee · Accepted solution]

Form data is submitted using a POST request. So you would need to put the form data in the Webhook body as Custom data.

I'll admit it's been a while since I've done this, so I had to look it up.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/14551320

You'll likely need to add a header of Content-Type with the value application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

And then in the Webhook body, your form field data would be defined thusly:

parameter=value&also=another

Hope this works for you!

[Charlie Misonne]

Yes this works!

It has also been documented on Authenticating OAuth 2.0 for outgoing web requests in Jira Automation rules