Consistently get Stories in an Epic in Classic Projects using Rest API

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I’m having an issue consistently getting the child Stories of an Epic in Classic Projects. I’ve used:

/rest/api/3/search?jql=cf[10014]={epicKey}&issuetype=Story&maxResults=50

My issue is that custom_field 10014 (cf[10014]) works for some Classic Projects, but errors out in others.

I’m looking for a more robust and consistent way to get the Stories in an Epic in Classic Projects.

Any ideas?

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Welcome to Atlassian Developer Community forums, @RhysDiab! When you said

what errors are you running into?

Also, does Jira Software cloud’s Get issues for epic REST API be able to help in your use case?

Cheers,
Ian

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The epic custom field will have a different ID (the number in square brackets) on different instances. You should refer to it by name instead, so the JQL query will be:

"Epic Link" = <issue-key> AND issuetype = Story
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Thank you. This solved the problem. I’m very grateful.