How to update a system field for Jira issue using CLI

Owned by Gabriela Costa, created
Last updated: Sept 28, 2022 by Avinash Bhagawati
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This article is about system fields. If you’re looking to update custom fields, please refer to this instead: https://bobswift.atlassian.net/l/c/xZPhJLTd which uses the action updateCustomFieldOptions.

This article provides guidelines on updating the system field options using the Jira Command Line Interface (JCLI).

Instructions

To update a system field using JCLI, you can use direct parameters. The available parameters can be found under Optional Parameters here:

  1. Use the action updateIssue.

    --action updateIssue --issue "ZJIRACLI-4" --components "auto1"

  2. Make use of the direct parameters to update:

issueType, type, summary, resolution, labels, priority, reporter, assignee, description, components, affectsVersions, fixVersions, environment, security, field, value, lookup, date, dateFormat, autoVersion, autoComponent, estimate, originalEstimate, append, appendText, continue, suppressNotify, comment, group, role, findReplace, findReplaceRegex, file, encoding

Potential problem:

If you face the error: is not defined or not valid in this context the most probable cause is: the field is NOT on the edit screen.