CustomField using Json importer

[Jay Chang]

I pre-set up two customFields in Jira, ex. "Story Points" and "Business Value" and in the json file, I defined value for the two fields as:
"Story Points" : "15",
"Business Value" : "34",

Importing such custom field using JSON Importer seems to fail with error such as ...Unrecognized field "Story Points" (Class com.atlassian.jira.plugins.importer.external.beans.ExternalIssue),...

Does this mean I have to define custom fields as below in order to import them?

"customFieldValues": [
        {
            "fieldName": "Story Points",
            "fieldType": "com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:float",
            "value": "15"
        },
        {
            "fieldName": "Business Value",
            "fieldType": "com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:float",
            "value": "34"
        }
    ]

Thanks,

JC

[Jay Chang · Accepted solution]

I could not make this format "customfield_10102": 10, to work. Anyway, the {fileName, fieldType, value} form is working fine for me now.

[EddieW]

Yeah, quite frustrating that the REST Json endpoint and the JSON importer seem to have completley distinct parsers when it comes to custom feilds. I still can't get cascading selects to import since "child" is not valid.

[Yilin]

Actually you need to have the id rather than the name, for example, if the customfield id for the story point is 10102 with a value 10, you can add the following line in the json data output:

"customfield_10102": 10,

[Jay Chang]

Thanks for your suggestion. However, this method doesn't seem to work for me. I still get error when the Json importer encounters the first customfield:

java.lang.RuntimeException: org.codehaus.jackson.map.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "customfield_10237" (Class com.atlassian.jira.plugins.importer.external.beans.ExternalIssue), not marked as ignorable
 at [Source: java.io.StringReader@1930818; line: 24, column: 28] (through reference chain: com.atlassian.jira.plugins.importer.external.beans.ExternalProject["issues"]->com.atlassian.jira.plugins.importer.external.beans.ExternalIssue["customfield_10237"])

[Yilin]

May I ask whether you've add the new customfield on the destination JIRA instance?

[Jay Chang]

Thanks for your quick response. Yes, I lookd up the customfields table to get field IDs for the fields that I defined.