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Jira Cloud platform / Reference / REST API v3

Project categories

Postman Collection
OpenAPI
GET

Get all project categories

Returns all project categories.

Permissions required: Permission to access Jira.

Data Security Policy: Exempt from app access rules
Scopes
ClassicRECOMMENDED:read:jira-work
Granular:read:project-category:jira

Connect app scope requiredREAD

Request

This request has no parameters.

Responses

Returned if the request is successful.

application/json

array<ProjectCategory>

GET/rest/api/3/projectCategory
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 // This sample uses Atlassian Forge // https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/ import api, { route } from "@forge/api"; const response = await api.asUser().requestJira(route`/rest/api/3/projectCategory`, { headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json' } }); console.log(`Response: ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`); console.log(await response.json());
200Response
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [ { "description": "First Project Category", "id": "10000", "name": "FIRST", "self": "https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/projectCategory/10000" }, { "description": "Second Project Category", "id": "10001", "name": "SECOND", "self": "https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/projectCategory/10001" } ]
POST

Create project category

Creates a project category.

Permissions required: Administer Jira global permission.

Data Security Policy: Exempt from app access rules
Scopes
ClassicRECOMMENDED:manage:jira-project
Granular:write:project-category:jira, read:project-category:jira

Connect app scope requiredADMIN

Request

Request bodyapplication/json

description

string

name

string

Responses

Returned if the request is successful.

application/json

ProjectCategory

A project category.

POST/rest/api/3/projectCategory
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 // This sample uses Atlassian Forge // https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/ import api, { route } from "@forge/api"; var bodyData = `{ "description": "Created Project Category", "name": "CREATED" }`; const response = await api.asUser().requestJira(route`/rest/api/3/projectCategory`, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: bodyData }); console.log(`Response: ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`); console.log(await response.json());
201Response
1 2 3 4 5 6 { "description": "Created Project Category", "id": "10100", "name": "CREATED", "self": "https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/projectCategory/10100" }
GET

Get project category by ID

Returns a project category.

Permissions required: Permission to access Jira.

Data Security Policy: Exempt from app access rules
Scopes
ClassicRECOMMENDED:read:jira-work
Granular:read:project-category:jira

Connect app scope requiredREAD

Request

Path parameters

id

integer

Required

Responses

Returned if the request is successful.

application/json

ProjectCategory

A project category.

GET/rest/api/3/projectCategory/{id}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 // This sample uses Atlassian Forge // https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/ import api, { route } from "@forge/api"; const response = await api.asUser().requestJira(route`/rest/api/3/projectCategory/{id}`, { headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json' } }); console.log(`Response: ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`); console.log(await response.json());
200Response
1 2 3 4 5 6 { "description": "First Project Category", "id": "10000", "name": "FIRST", "self": "https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/projectCategory/10000" }
PUT

Update project category

Updates a project category.

Permissions required: Administer Jira global permission.

Data Security Policy: Exempt from app access rules
Scopes
ClassicRECOMMENDED:manage:jira-project
Granular:read:project-category:jira, write:project-category:jira

Connect app scope requiredADMIN

Request

Path parameters

id

integer

Required

Request bodyapplication/json

description

string

name

string

Responses

Returned if the request is successful.

application/json

UpdatedProjectCategory

A project category.

PUT/rest/api/3/projectCategory/{id}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 // This sample uses Atlassian Forge // https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/ import api, { route } from "@forge/api"; var bodyData = `{ "description": "Updated Project Category", "name": "UPDATED" }`; const response = await api.asUser().requestJira(route`/rest/api/3/projectCategory/{id}`, { method: 'PUT', headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: bodyData }); console.log(`Response: ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`); console.log(await response.json());
200Response
1 2 3 4 5 6 { "description": "Updated Project Category", "id": "10100", "name": "UPDATED", "self": "https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/projectCategory/10100" }
DEL

Delete project category

Deletes a project category.

Permissions required: Administer Jira global permission.

Data Security Policy: Exempt from app access rules
Scopes
ClassicRECOMMENDED:manage:jira-project
Granular:delete:project-category:jira

Connect app scope requiredADMIN

Request

Path parameters

id

integer

Required

Responses

Returned if the request is successful.

DEL/rest/api/3/projectCategory/{id}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 // This sample uses Atlassian Forge // https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/ import api, { route } from "@forge/api"; const response = await api.asUser().requestJira(route`/rest/api/3/projectCategory/{id}`, { method: 'DELETE' }); console.log(`Response: ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`); console.log(await response.text());

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