JSON: Declare an epic color as an object

[Pierre Heinrich]

Currently i am writing an automation which should change the epic color of a task from an Next-Gen Project.

I was not able to find the key word for an "epic color". How do i set this if i want to declare a certain color via JSON?

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Pierre Heinrich 

I experimented and was able to get is to work using the custom field name representing epic color...

• First, figure out the name of the epic color field using the REST API to query an example set of epics.  Here is the how to: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/find-the-smart-value-for-a-field/
• Next, create your rule and update the field using JSON.  For me, my example was:

{
"fields": {
"customfield_10011": "ghx-label-9"
}
}

Here is another community post which lists the color names, although I recommend experimenting to confirm:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/What-are-the-standard-Epic-Colors-that-I-can-use-in-a-search/qaq-p/243666

Best regards,

Bill

[Pierre Heinrich]

Hi @Bill Sheboy

thank you so much for the reply. Your solutions worked for me nearly the same way. Inside the JSON declaration there where other codes for the "customfields". The rest was really the same way to code. Here my solution:

{
"fields": {
"customfield_11915": "blue"}
}

Best regards,

Pierre

[Bill Sheboy]

Awesome!  I am glad to hear that worked and that the human-readable color names worked.

__Bill