Set logged work without worklog entry?

[Charlie Misonne]

I'm working on a custom script to import tickets from another system to Jira.

That other systems has a field "actual effort". It's basically the amount of days someone spent on that ticket.

In Jira this could be translated to a worklog entry. I could make one via the script but there is no relevant date or worklog author.

Hence my question: is there a way to add the total amount of logged work on an issue without worklog entry? Or is "Logged Work" directly calculated from the worklogs.

In this example "Logged" is based on the difference between "Estimated" and "Remaining". But I can not find a way to set this programmatically.

[Charlie Misonne · Accepted solution]

Anwsering my own question: it is possible by ising

issue.setTimeSpent(myLong)

MutableIssue (Atlassian Jira - Server 9.12.15 API)

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Charlie Misonne 

As you mentioned, you are correct.

You need a worklog entry. Logged work is indeed calculated on the worklog entries.

[Charlie Misonne]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for your answer.

In the meantime I found a solution:

I missed this yesterday  but there seems to be a method to set the time spent without worklog:

issue.setTimeSpent(myLong)

MutableIssue (Atlassian Jira - Server 9.12.15 API)