How to get the field description of a custom field

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With POST /rest/api/2/field I create custom fields and pass a description. I need to read this again later, but GET /rest/api/2/field only returns the name, not the description. How can I get it?

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Hi @m.schmidt, this looks to be a bug. I raised an issue with Jira Cloud Ecosystem team to triage. You can watch it here [ACJIRA-1629] - Ecosystem Jira

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hi @rwhitbeck/@m.schmidt

looks like you are fimiliar with my topic Unable to create custom field or update using REST API in jira cloud APP - #5 by biro

can you please help on this.

Thanks,
Nitish

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Has there been any movement on this in the last 6 years? No one is assigned to it and it’s still an issue. There’s no reliable way to get the description for a field via the API. You can use the search endpoint but it doesn’t actually return a description that we know exists, so that’s a bug at least. Ideally, we could just retrieve the description in the way we can get all fields.