how to get issueId for a given task ?

SergeZ September 15, 2013

Hi everyone!

Does anybody know how to get issueId for a given task ? Suppose I've created a new task titled in the following manner ("title-4343" ). Number has not been added by myself. Practice shows that "4343" is not an issueId of the task ( I wish it would be )... So, how could I know the exact issueId for created task ?

Very appreciate your attention!

Thanks a lot!

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Bharadwaj Jannu
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September 15, 2013

Hello Sergey Zaystsev,

You view the Page Source from the browser and find something like

<li><a id="key-val" rel="512281" href="/browse/title-4343">title-4343</a></li>

in that 512281 like number is the id for the issue title-4343.

SergeZ September 15, 2013

thank you, it works! But now I do think on how to automate this in order to use such approach in programme code... Or may be there is another way to find _id_ in a more programmable way

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Bharadwaj Jannu
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September 15, 2013

Programmatically you use issue object to get id and based on the scenario you can get the issue object.

Refer document and use as issue.getId()

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September 17, 2013

hi Sergey Zaystsev,

do you get the issue id ?

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December 16, 2015

May not be the easiest or most direct way to get there, but here is what I do (in Chrome):

  1. View Source (F12)
  2. Right Click the Issue Key and select Inspect - This highlights the needed row in the Source view
  3. Note the number in the (rel="12345") entry.

See attached.

JIRA - Finding Field ID for a specific Issue.png

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SergeZ September 17, 2013

Yes, I got it in two ways - first as you described above, second - rest/api/2/issue/{issueTitleHere} and read the response ( json ). IssueId is also available there.

Currently there is another thing which bothers me much more - 212929 ticket... Can you give some guidence on that ?

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September 17, 2013

Sergey Zaytsev,

appreciated if you accept as an answer for this question. Also I don't have much idea about Zephyrs plugin you mentioned above.

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