Link Jira tasks to Canny posts via API
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Entire Meadowlark
Allow users to use the API to link Canny posts to Jira tasks.
Created by Jacques Reulet
Sarah Hum
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Geographical Capybara
We'd also very much like this feature.
Currently, when we create a Jira issue in a specific project, we need to create the corresponding Canny post (which we can do via API), but then need to manually link the created post back to the original Jira issue.
We noticed that we can do this with the https://<subdomain>.canny.io/api/jira/linkIssue API, but this requires a CSRF token. The generated tokens are relatively long-lived, but there's no documentation on regenerating these when they do expire.
To answer Sarah Hum's questions:
- We would like to be able to automatically link to a Jira issue when a Canny post is created as a result of the Jira issue creation/transition/etc. This could either be exposing the above mentioned API call to API key auth, or just allowing us to specify the jiraobject in theposts/createcall.
- We don't have any specific needs with regards to content as we are already controlling the post creation via API, just missing the linking feature.
- We're using the existing status automation via the integration; additional syncing I think is out of scope – our need only centers around the ability to make the equivalent of the above mentioned API call (/jira/linkIssue).
Sarah Hum
Hello Entire Meadowlark! Following up on this:
- Can you provide more details on how you envision the linking process between Canny posts and Jira tasks?
- What specific information from the Canny post would you like to see in the linked Jira task?
- How would you like updates to the Jira task to be reflected in the linked Canny post?