Action: Create Issue

GitLab Operation

The Create Issue action creates a new issue to track tasks, bugs, or feature requests in a project.

Example User Story

I want to report a critical bug in the payment gateway so the development team can prioritize and fix it before the next release.

Fields

Field Name	Field Type	Required
projectId	Integer	Yes
title	String	Yes
description	String	No
labels	String	No

Related Connections

GitLab

Related Automations

Example link

Code (Apache v2.0): Operation

{
  "handle": "create-issue",
  "state": "inDev",
  "meta": {
    "short": "Create Issue",
    "description": "Creates a new issue in a GitLab project."
  },
  "input": [
    {
      "name": "projectId",
      "type": "Integer",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The ID of the GitLab project."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "title",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The title of the issue."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "description",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The description of the issue."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "labels",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Comma-separated list of labels for the issue."
      }
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "issueId",
      "type": "Integer",
      "selector": ["id"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The ID of the created issue."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "issueIid",
      "type": "Integer",
      "selector": ["iid"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The internal ID of the created issue."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "webUrl",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["web_url"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The URL to view the issue in GitLab."
      }
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "http": {
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/projects/{{projectId}}/issues",
        "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
          "PRIVATE-TOKEN": "{{.auth.token}}"
        },
        "bodyTemplate": {
          "value": "{\"title\": \"{{title}}\", \"description\": \"{{description}}\", \"labels\": \"{{labels}}\"}",
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "name": "title",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The title of the issue.",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "description",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The description of the issue.",
              "required": false
            },
            {
              "name": "labels",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "Comma-separated list of labels for the issue.",
              "required": false
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}