Change original creator of issue via RestAPI in JIRA cloud

[Deleted user]

We plan to migrate our inhouse-JIRA, to the cloud and to Programm a Little tool that does this for us.

Besides migrating the Issues, assigning users to them etc. We want to change the original creator of an issue.
When we create an issue over the REST API it seems like it sets the creator of the issue as the User, used to connect via rest.

Is there a way to do this? I couldn't find something like it in the documentation of the Cloud RestAPI,

Best regards!

[Tuncay Senturk _Snapbytes_ · Accepted solution]

By default the reporter is the user calling the REST service. But you can set reporter if the user (calling the rest service) has "modify reporter" permission, also reporter field should be in create issue screen.

In the rest service, add below code to your json body

"reporter": {
   "name": "johndoe"
}

[Deleted user]

exactly what i needed, thx!

[Tuncay Senturk _Snapbytes_]

You're welcome ;)

[Martin Preiwisch]

Reporter and Creator are two different fields though. If you use the Jira Importers Plugin with a JSON-file, you get the same problem and it isn't solved by setting the reporter-field.