update/insert Select field value

update or insert a new Select List (cascading) field option value via Plugin and Curl

• 1. install CustomFieldEditorPlugin "jiracustomfieldeditorplugin"

  2. go to Add-Ons > Customfield Editor > Permission Editor

• 1. Add a user account to the field permission, this si the user that will be inserting new values via Curl request

• 1. Get the Field ID of the select field, both the parent and child option (in this case its 12600 for parent, 14042 child)

  2. curl -u user:pw -X GET https://jiraserver/rest/jiracustomfieldeditorplugin/1.1/user/customfieldoptions/12600

  3. [{"optionvalue":"Child1","id":14042,"sequence":0,"disabled":false},{"optionvalue":"Child2","id":14043,"sequence":1,"disabled":false},{"optionvalue":"Child3","id":14044,"sequence":2,"disabled":false},{"optionvalue":"Child4","id":14045,"sequence":3,"disabled":false},{"optionvalue":"Child5","id":14046,"sequence":4,"disabled":false},{"optionvalue":"Child6","id":14047,"sequence":5,"disabled":false},{"optionvalue":"Child7","id":14048,"sequence":6,"disabled":false}]

  4. do a Curl request to insert a new value

# Update JIRA select field

curl -u user:pw -X POST "https://jiraserver/rest/jiracustomfieldeditorplugin/1.1/user/customfieldchildoption/12600/14042" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"optionvalue\": myNewValue,\"disabled\": false}"