POST /rest/api/2/issuetype

Creates an issue type and adds it to the default issue type scheme.

Permissions required: Administer Jira global permission.

Servers

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "application/json"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
name String Yes

The unique name for the issue type. The maximum length is 60 characters.

description String No

The description of the issue type.

type String No

Deprecated. Use hierarchyLevel instead. See the deprecation notice for details.

Whether the issue type is subtype or standard. Defaults to standard.

Possible values:

  • "standard"
  • "subtask"
hierarchyLevel Integer No

The hierarchy level of the issue type. Use:

  • -1 for Subtask.
  • 0 for Base.

Defaults to 0.

How to start integrating

  1. Add HTTP Task to your workflow definition.
  2. Search for the API you want to integrate with and click on the name.
    • This loads the API reference documentation and prepares the Http request settings.
  3. Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.