How can I know a jira project's projectTemplateKey?

[Ronaldo Huang]

I found a document: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-projects/#api-rest-api-3-project-get which has rest api to create jira project , and projectTemplateKey in request body.
When I create a jira project by rest api, I want an existed jira project as template.
How can I know the existed jira project's projectTemplateKey?

[Prince Nyeche · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ronaldo Huang 

Welcome to community, I think you're referring to the shared template API.

/rest/project-templates/1.0/createshared/{projectId} 

Where ProjectId is the id of the existing project.

However that API is not official if you're using Cloud, so I wouldn't rely on it so much but you can test it to see if it works for you!

[Ronaldo Huang]

Wow! It really works.

But I'm confused that why that API is not official? ^_^

[Ronaldo Huang]

@Prince Nyeche 

Wow! It really works.

But I'm confused that why that API is not official? ^_^

[Prince Nyeche]

It's because, most of the time users wouldn't really want to create a project based of another Project from an API perspective. Likewise if the API is not documented on Atlassian developer pages it isn't official. which means it can stop working at any time without any prior notification to you the user. 

[Ronaldo Huang]

@Prince Nyeche 

Oh, I see. I hope it never stop working. It's useful for me. ^_^

[Deleted user]

Hello,

@Ronaldo Huang 

Could you tell me how you made the api work and what value you put between the keys please.

[Ronaldo Huang]

@[deleted] 

The request body is:

{

"key":"",

"name":"",

"projectTypeKey":"",

"lead":"",

"description":""

}

[Deleted user]

@Ronaldo Huang 

The body is clear to me, in fact I can generate a project automatically, but I want to obtain the templey of my project so that when I create it, that is always used as I can obtain them.