Change visibility comment via api

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Hi, im trying to modify the visibility restriction of a comment to no restriction.
First of all i add a comment using this:

def body
//def roleType = "Nivel 1"
def commentBody = "test"
def roleType = null
def issueKey = "<IssueKey>"
if(roleType != null){

def tempCommentBody = "[Internal] " + commentBody
body = [
"visibility": [
"type": "role",
"value": roleType
],
"body": tempCommentBody
]

logger.info "Create comment BODY:" + body

} else {
logger.info "Visibilidad public"

def tempCommentBody = "[Public] " + commentBody
body = ["body": tempCommentBody]
logger.info "Create comment BODY:" + body

}

def response2 = post("/rest/api/2/issue/${issueKey}/comment")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.header("Accept", "application/json")
.body(body)
.asJson()

after the creation you can save the comment id using:

def commentId = response2.body.array[0].id.toString()```

and after that you can modify the visibility from null to "nivel 1"using:

def response = put("/rest/api/2/issue/${issueKey}/comment/${commentId }")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.header("Accept", "application/json")
.body(body)
.asJson()

That is working, but if i try to do the reverse, going from “nivel 1” to nothing is not working, in this case u just need to uncomment the line roletype to the other one and that update the comment.

That was working before but not anymore. I’m missing something?

Thanks!

2

My guess is that you will need to change the visibility to type=group and value=jira-users to make it publicly available.

3

Hi, thanks but is not what i need, because my client doesn’t have that jira group for all the users, all i want is no restriction visibility, no restrict it to a group.

Thanks anyways

4

my client doesn’t have that jira group for all the users

I’m not sure if this is possible in Jira Cloud, because I think site access is governed via groups. This is also why my guess is that visibility always defaults to a specific group in the first place, even for public. But again, this is all assumption.

5

it was possible few days a go, so yes

6

In case someone needs a more concrete answer, I would recommend Remie’s approach of using type=group but you might have to change your global jira settings. I detailed how to do that here

Then you can set to type=group and value=jira-users. You can see the possible options for value under user management > groups. You should see a list of groups that kinda look like the ff:

  • administrators
  • jira-administrators
  • jira-software-users
  • site-admins
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Has anyone tried simply removing the visibility key/value object entirely?
When I create a comment in this manner it is created with full visibility (I think) … so one might hope that replicating the comment only without a visibility key/value might sort this out. :+1:

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Hi @EliotCole,

This worked perfect for me! Thank you!

Cheers!