Cant set custom field "account" made by Tempo Edited

[Steven de Jong]

It seems impossible to set the field "Account" which is a custom field made by the Tempo Timesheets plugin. 

In our case this is the customfield_10002. As seen in the REST documentation this should have a SET opration (see below).

"customfield_10002": {
"required": false,
"schema": {
"type": "account",
"custom": "com.tempoplugin.tempo-accounts:accounts.customfield",
"customId": 10002
},
"name": "Account",
"key": "customfield_10002",
"hasDefaultValue": false,
"operations": [
"set"
]
}

But whatever value or id I Set (values and ID's are accessible via http://<youratlassian>/rest/tempo-accounts/1/account/ ) it wont be set in the automation. The automation on the other hand says it was a succes. 

Has someone encountered and fixed this issue?

[Andreas Knecht · Accepted solution]

Hey Steven,

So I heard back from Tempo support now.  It looks like the correct construct is to make the id a string:

{
    "fields": {
        "Account": "234"
    }
}

Can you give that a go please?

Cheers,

  Andreas

[Steven de Jong]

This worked indeed . 1 upvote

[Andreas Knecht]

Hi Steven,

So did you try this with an 'Edit issue' action using the 'Advanced' block?  

Is this the JSON you put in the advanced block:

{
    "fields": {
        "Account": 234
    }
}

234 in this example would be the account id.

I haven't been able to test this yet and trying to get a hold of someone from Tempo.  I'm not 100% sure if this field can be set this way (it's a non-standard custom field).

Cheers,
  Andreas

[Steven de Jong]

Hi Andreas,

I tried this but it doesn't work. The rule triggers at the condition and as a test i also set the assignee in the automation. That works fine, but the account field won't set. 

Cheers,

Steven

[Andreas Knecht]

Hey Steven,

So I've just setup Tempo locally and tried pretty much any combination I can think of to edit the Account field via REST with no luck.  I'm not sure this will be possible.

I did just open a support case with Tempo to ask them what they magic format for this field might be.  I'll let you know when they get back to me.

Cheers,

  Andreas

[Andreas Knecht]

For future users trying to do the same thing.

This works:

{
    "fields": {
        "Account": "234"
    }
}

(account id as a string not a number)

[Steven de Jong]

Way overdue response, but this indeed worked!

Love the add-on btw. 

Cheers!

[Andreas Knecht]

Great to hear it worked!  Cheers!