Custom Field id not working in Smart Values

[Hunter1428]

Hey all,

I am updating our email templates with field id's instead of the field name. But for some reason when I use the id, I get no results?

Looking around the forums and documentation I find some conflicting info and neither work.

The documentation here - https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-general/

Says use: which neither actually work for me.

• {{issue.CustomField.id}}
• {{issue.CustomField.name}}

This is slightly confusing as I have been using, which I have never had a problem with.

• {{issue.fields.CustomField}}

And after looking at this thread - https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Questions/Can-t-access-Custom-Field-value-in-Jira-Automation/qaq-p/730676

• {{issue.fields."paste your field name here".value}}

I tried this and still nothing...

Any ideas?

[sreuter · Accepted solution]

@Hunter1428 To get the value of your field by id you can use this smart value: {{issue.fields.customfield_10040}} ..

Let me know how it goes! :)

[Hunter1428]

This worked great, I feel silly for not just adding the id number at then end of {{issue.fields.CustomField}} haha

Thanks!

[andy_deighton]

Does this work with fields that have been added to a team-managed project's issue types? Team-managed works slightly differently in that you can add field templates to an issue using the Issue Types page. When I try using smart values like {{issue.fields.customfield_11308.value}} in my automation rules, it always returns nothing, for issues in my team-managed instance.

Heeelp!!

[Gursimran Singh]

I am using something similar, 
I have a user picker field, and I am using 

{{issue.Approvers}}  - This gives me user id in return.
{{issue.Approvers.displayName}} - this returns me the Name of the person.

What should I use to get the email instead ?  Any ideas

[Dave F]

Try {{issue.Approvers.emailAddress}}

[Médéric Lefebvre]

Hi everyone, where do you find the IDs of your custom fields ? Is it necessary to be an administrator ?

Thanks.

[Hunter1428]

Hey!

If you search the filter name in the JQL box, it will say the name and the ID :)

[Andreas Safar]

Go to Settings -> Issues -> Custom Fields -> Search for your field -> Click on ... (3 dots) -> then click on Edit Details

On this custom fields screen you will find the id within the URL (something like atlassian.net/...EditCustomField!default.jspa?id=10065)

[Marc Isikoff]

Or run a JQL query and choose your custom fields as a column; run the query then sort by your custom field and it will show the custom field #.

[Leonel Goitia]

You can list all your custom fields with this https://youworkspace.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/field 

[Mackowiak]

Hi, 

The following works fine to set security based on a custom field value

{
"update": {"security": [{"set": {"name": "{{issue.customfield_10054}}"}}]}
}

Guillaume.