Confirm Variancy of JIRA Cloud issue field keys for custom fields

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Hi, @lbermejo,

Custom fields may indeed have different IDs on every instance, this is expected.

There is the Get fields endpoint, which gives you information about all fields on a Jira instance. You would need to first call it and map IDs to field types.

For example, the sprint field the entry will look like this:

  {
    "id": "customfield_10880",
    "key": "customfield_10880",
    "name": "Sprint",
    "custom": true,
    "orderable": true,
    "navigable": true,
    "searchable": true,
    "clauseNames": [
      "cf[10880]",
      "Sprint"
    ],
    "schema": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": "string",
      "custom": "com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-sprint",
      "customId": 10880
    }
  }

As you can see, “schema” tells you that the type of the field is “com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-sprint”, which is the Sprint field custom field (this string will be the same on every instance).

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Krzysztof