/rest/api/2/issue/archive and /rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/archive

[Andreas Lorz]

Hi Community,

found the two endpoints

• POST /rest/api/2/issue/archive and
• PUT /rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/archive

by chance (https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.5.1/).

The doc says: "Archives a list of issues.", which is not very much.

Can anybody explain me whats the deal with this two?

Didn't know there is an archiving option. Don't know it from the GUI and don't know what happens when do over REST. Didn't tested it on a staging env. yet. Can somebody explain.

We running a server instance.

Thanks in advance.

[Elifcan Cakmak · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Did you check out this document:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/archiving-an-issue-968669980.html

Regards.

Elifcan

[Andreas Lorz]

Hi Elifcan,

thanks. Well that explains it. Only available in Data Center.

And just tested it. You get the response:

{
"errorMessages": [
"To archive issues, you need to enable this feature, and have a license for Jira Data Center."
],
"errors": {}
}

 Thanks for your response.