Editing Custom fields

[mradrianmarsh]

My Jira Cloud instance has what I think are custom fields (Due Date and Start Date) on EPICs.
I have list of updates I want to loop through the cli.

But I can't see how to find the custom field names to use. Would the cli tool be usable here ?

[sirhc]

This is something I have to deal with a lot and I have a few places where I've been able to read custom fields and update them.

First, finding them can be tricky, depending on how unique the name is.

# jira fields | fx

(The fx command is handy for exploring JSON, but less would work just as well here.)

I'll then cross-reference that with an issue where I know what the value is.

# jira view ISSUE-1 -t fields | fx

Once I know the field, I create a template that uses it. For example, we have several required custom fields when transitioning an issue to a state indicating that it's ready for a code review. So I have something like this in ~/.jira.d/templates/code-review:

fields:
  customfield_12345: # code reviewer
    emailAddress: {{ .overrides.reviewer }}
  # etc.

Then I can transition the issue thusly,

# jira transition 'Code Review' ISSUE-1 -t code-review -o [email protected]

Similarly for viewing an issue.

# jira view ISSUE-1 -t fields | jq '.fields.customfield_12345.emailAddress'

Or provide a custom template that includes the custom field (or modify the existing view template).