Cannot create a Jira OnDemand issue via Zendesk

Markus Nordvik March 5, 2015

Every time I attempt to create an issue in Zendesk, I get the error:

{"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"reporter":"Field 'reporter' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown."}}

I have given the Zendesk for JIRA user every permission I can.  When I use the Permission Helper for:

  • User: Zendesk for JIRA
  • Issue: Any issue
  • Permission: Modify Reporter

Everything checks out as green.  Same for permissions Administer Projects, Create Issues, Edit Issues, Assign Issues, etc.

Everything I have read so far is that this is caused by a permissions problem, but I don't know which permission I need to be altering if Modify Reporter is checking out.

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Bruno Rosa
Atlassian Team
Atlassian Team members are employees working across the company in a wide variety of roles.
March 6, 2015

Markus, is the Reporter field on the "Create Issue" screen at all (on JIRA's side)? Please bear in mind that the REST API respects the way JIRA works on the front-end, so if users can't do something in the UI, REST won't let them either.

Markus Nordvik March 13, 2015

Hi Bruno - that was it. I really appreciate the response.

Farhan Ghani July 20, 2017

worked for me too, thank you

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francis
Marketplace Partner
Marketplace Partners provide apps and integrations available on the Atlassian Marketplace that extend the power of Atlassian products.
June 25, 2019

Hi Markus,

 

Next to the DIY approach (which is kind of fun to do),  you can consider one of the issue synchronisation solutions - check query here?

One of these apps - Exalate - allows synchronizing between Jira and Zendesk (but also Jira, Github, ServiceNow, HP QC and more to come).  It provides a number of capabilities such as

 

  • Multiple bidirectional connections
    You can link a single Zendesk instance with multiple other instances (Jira (all deployment models), ServiceNow, Github, ... and more to come), or link a single Jira with multiple Zendesk instances (or any permutation you can imagine)

  • Completeness
    Whenever you exalate an issue to Jira, you can send over the complete ticket history (all comments, descriptions ...).  And comments are copied over as if they have been created locally.  Status synchronisation is possible also on Jira Server
  • No dependencies between the different instances
    The target project is selected on the Jira side.  Whenever you need to make a change in your Jira configuration - you can do it without affecting the synchronisation agreements.

 

 

Let us know if you would like to see it in action - we're here to demo the capabilities of Exalate  and to discuss your requirements - just select a convenient timeslot here

 

Psst - Obviously I'm with the exalate team :-)

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Anton October 15, 2015

Hello! I have the exact same problem.

On our "create issue" screen, however, the reporter field is present.

 

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Anton

Enzo Iwata December 16, 2016

Did you check if in permissions scheme the "atlassian-addons-project-access" is granted to "Modify Reporter"?

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