Hi everyone,
I’m trying to map a single-select Category field in Jira Cloud via Make, but I keep getting the following error: customfield_12815: Provide a valid ‘id’ or ‘name’ for Category.
Here’s what I’ve tried so far in the mapping (all with the switch() function to map label to ID):
What is the correct way to send the expected object value (with id) to Jira?
Can someone please help with this issue? 
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What options do you get if you untoggle/turn OFF Map for the category field, are you able to select multiple items, then toggle it back ON to see what form of data remains in the field?
What are some example values for module [3]?
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Disabling Map, selecting ‘New Marketplace Integration’, and executing the automation results in the field showing the ID (14992).
Here is the input bundle for this example:
[
{
"project": "11646",
"summary": "My title",
"issueType": "11163",
"customFields": {
"customfield_12595": [
"14564"
],
"customfield_12606": "This is a description",
"customfield_12782": "Lorem ipsum",
"customfield_12815": "14992"
}
}
]
and the output bundle:
[
{
"id": "72058",
"key": "PNP-73",
"self": "https://channelpilot.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/72058"
}
]
Here’s the structure of the Microsoft Lists table from which I want to transfer the data.
So it looks like the variable {{3.customFields.customfield_12815}} already contains the category ID. Why do you need a switch statement?
Just leave that variable directly in that field.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
@samliew That was my initial approach; unfortunately, it doesn’t work. I then receive this error:
[400] customfield_12815: Please provide a value for ‘Category’. Permitted values are 14992 [New Marketplace Integration], 14993 [Existing Marketplace Optimization], 14994 [Feed & Data Management], 14995 [Platform Core], 14996 [Integrations & API], 14997 [User Experience], -1.
Input bundle:
[
{
"project": "11646",
"summary": "zuzu",
"issueType": "11163",
"customFields": {
"customfield_12595": [
"14564"
],
"customfield_12606": "zuztuz",
"customfield_12782": "zutzuztu",
"customfield_12815": "Platform Core"
}
}
]
As you can see, the first bundle you provided is different to the second one, one containing the ID in a text string and another text.
Perhaps you’ll also need to cast/convert the ID string into a number. To do this you can use the parseNumber function around the switch statement.