proposal for custom fields on issues

[kwv]

Discussed in https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli/discussions/346

^{Originally posted by ankitpokhrel April 20, 2022} Jira supports a wide variety of datatypes when creating a custom field. Out of all formats mentioned in the Jira doc, the tool right now doesn't support Cascading select custom field, Single-user picker custom field and Multi-user picker custom field. Support for these missing types will be added based on the request and the usecase.

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For fields with unsupported/complex datatypes, would it be possible to allow the object representation to be passed in ?

    - name: Assigned PO
      key: customfield_10811
      schema:
        datatype: user

e.g.

jira issue edit EXMP-1234 --custom assigned-po='{"name": "$(jira me)"}'


Error:
  - customfield_10811: data was not an object

jira: Received unexpected response '400 '.
Please check the parameters you supplied and try again.

[ankitpokhrel]

Hi @kwv, I am considering this to be an option, will check to see if its doable in the near future.

[Roobxyz]

Hey - with my companies setup I'm unable to create Bug type issues since they require a custom field in the form of a Single-user picker custom field.

I really like using this cli but this makes it difficult for me to use

[GZLiew]

@ankitpokhrel is there a workaround for this? maybe I can edit the source 🤔