Can not create Epic type of task via API

[Aleksandar Colic]

Hi,

When I create the "Task" type, all tasks were created successfully. 

However, when I try to create "Epic", I am getting the following error:

....

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/jira/resilientsession.py", line 64, in raise_on_error
raise JIRAError(
jira.exceptions.JIRAError: JiraError HTTP 400 url: https://spothopper.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue
text: Epic Name is required.

......

Expect-CT': 'report-uri="https://web-security-reports.services.atlassian.com/expect-ct-report/global-proxy", enforce, max-age=86400'}
response text = {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"customfield_10011":"Epic Name is required."}}

This is a code that is creating issues:

....

project = "WEB"

#issuetype = "Task"
issuetype = "Epic"

for issue in issues:
    jira.create_issue(project=project, summary=issue.title, description=issue.html_url, issuetype=issuetype)

....

Regards,

Aleksandar

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

As the error message indicates, when you create an Epic both summary and epic name are required fields. Based on your code you are not setting the epic name and that is why you get the error.

[Aleksandar Colic]

There was no Epic Name field. The solution is this:

jira.create_issue(project=project, summary=issue.title, customfield_10011=issue.title, description=issue.html_url, issuetype=issuetype)

Cheers,

Aleksandar