Discover Jira custom field IDs and required fields, then create an issue with the correct payload (createmeta replacement endpoints)
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Do not use the flat GET /rest/api/3/issue/createmeta — it is deprecated (changelog CHANGE-1304). Use the two project-scoped replacements below.
Find valid issue types for the project: GET /rest/api/3/issue/createmeta/{projectIdOrKey}/issuetypes. Returns a paginated list; note the id of the issue type you want (Task, Bug, Story, Sub-task).
Get the field metadata for that project + issue type: GET /rest/api/3/issue/createmeta/{projectIdOrKey}/issuetypes/{issueTypeId}. This returns each field's key (including customfield_NNNNN), its schema, whether it is required, and allowedValues for select fields.
For a global name-to-ID map of every custom field, GET /rest/api/3/field and match on 'name'. Prefer matching the schema 'custom' type (for example com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-sprint for Sprint) over the display name, because field names are mutable.
Create the issue: POST /rest/api/3/issue with body {"fields":{"project":{"key":"ABC"},"issuetype":{"id":"10001"},"summary":"...","description":<ADF doc>,"customfield_10032":"value"}}.
Remember description in v3 is ADF, not a string: {"type":"doc","version":1,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"..."}]}]}.
Field value shapes differ by type: single-select is {"value":"High"} or {"id":"3"}, user picker is {"accountId":"..."}, multi-select is an array of those objects, labels is a plain string array, number is a raw number.
Edit later with PUT /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}. Check editability first with GET /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/editmeta. Add ?notifyUsers=false to suppress notification email on bulk edits.
Known gotchas
Custom field IDs are per-site. customfield_10032 on one Jira site is a different field on another — always resolve IDs at runtime rather than baking them into config.
createmeta for a project+issue type returns only fields on the CREATE screen. A field that exists on the issue but not on the create screen cannot be set at create time; set it with a follow-up PUT.
notifyUsers=false only takes effect if the caller has admin / Administer Projects permission; otherwise it is silently ignored and everyone still gets mail.
Team-managed (next-gen) projects have per-project issue type schemes, so issue type IDs are not portable between them.
PUT /issue does not check screen configuration to decide editability, so a field being absent from the edit screen does not necessarily block a write.
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