Create Issue

Description

“Jira Create Issue” plugin step creates an issue in an on-premise or on-cloud version of a JIRA instance.

Limitation

The following fields are unsupported: Time Tracking, Original Estimate, and Remaining Estimate.

Note

Supported format for Date type fields, such as Due Date is ‘YYYY-MM-DD’.

Configurations

Field Name	Description
Step Name	Name of the step. This name has to be unique in a single workflow.

Connection

For the connection field details, click Connection Fields

Input tab

Field Name	Description
Accept Update fields as JSON	Enable checkbox to accept the fields to be updated in JSON format.
Update fields JSON	Select the field in the stream containing the JSON text. Sample JSON is shown below. {“Summary”:”sumaryfromAE”,”Project”:”SP”,”Priority”:”Medium”,”description”:”Dec from AE”,”Issue Type”:”Bug”} The JSON field can be any field in the stream or can be created using any step such as Generate Rows, Modified Java Script, Set field value to a constant etc.
Variable Field Name	This is an optional field. Choose a field in input stream from drop down list or provide a user or system defined variable.
Static Field Name	Clicking on this column field brings a dialog with the list of available fields to create an issue.
Field Value	Specify a Field value to hold the value of field name selected in Field Name column above. All the mandatory fields for creating an issue for a particular instance must be selected and the field values should be provided else the workflows throw error mentioning the mandatory field that is missing.

Output tab

Field Name	Description
ID	Output field to hold the ID of the issue created on successful plugin execution. The mandatory fields depend on the particular instance configurations.
Key	Output field to hold the key of the issue created on successful plugin execution Errors can be captured in the step error handling (right-click step and select error handling) to make the error message visible on AutomationEdge Requests.