unable to set parent field

[electriquo]

Describe the bug

Creating an issue with parent field or parameter does not work.

$ cat "$file" | jira issue create --type ISSUE --parent $parent --assignee $user --custom parent=$parent --summary "$summary"
✓ Issue created
https://company.atlassian.net/browse/ISSUE-12346

Browsing the issue in the browser, I see that it does not have the parent field. So I tried to analyze the fields of the created issue using the API and as you can see, the parent field was not set.

$ curl -Ls --user "${user}:${token}" https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/ISSUE-12346 | jq -r '.fields.parent'
null

I repeat the analysis on an issue with the parent field set correctly

$ curl -Ls --user "${user}:${token}" https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/ISSUE-12344 | jq -r '.fields.parent'
{
  "id": "119126",
  "key": "ISSUE-12345",
  "self": "https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/119126",
  "fields": {
    "summary": "...",
    "status": {
      "self": "https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/status/10003",
      "description": "...",
      "iconUrl": "https://company.atlassian.net/images/icons/subtask.gif",
      "name": "...",
      "id": "10003",
      "statusCategory": {
        "self": "https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/statuscategory/2",
        "id": 2,
        "key": "new",
        "colorName": "...",
        "name": "To Do"
      }
    },
    "priority": {
      "self": "https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/priority/4",
      "iconUrl": "https://company.atlassian.net/images/icons/priorities/minor.svg",
      "name": "...",
      "id": "1"
    },
    "issuetype": {
      "self": "https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issuetype/10000",
      "id": "10000",
      "description": "...",
      "iconUrl": "https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/universal_avatar/view/type/issuetype/avatar/10307?size=medium",
      "name": "Epic",
      "subtask": false,
      "avatarId": 10307,
      "hierarchyLevel": 1
    }
  }
}

Clearly, that in the browser I did not set all these values for the parent field. The parent field is a select box to pin an issue that is the parent (some call this an epic), such as selecting ISSUE-12345 (see the screenshot below).

Then I tried to look for the custom field in the CLI configuration

$ dasel -f "${HOME}/.config/.jira/.config.yml" '.issue.fields.custom' | grep -i parent -A 3
- name: Parent Link
  key: customfield_12700
  schema:
    datatype: any

So I tried setting this custom field by editing the issue, but got an error

$ jira issue edit ISSUE-12346 --custom parent-link=ISSUE-12345
? Summary Summary
? Description <Received>
? What's next? Submit

Error:
  - Given parent issue does not belong to appropriate hierarchy.

jira: Received unexpected response '400 Bad Request'.
Please check the parameters you supplied and try again.

Both the parent and the parent-link fields does not apply for the ticket even when the --parent option was used.
How can I set the parent field to value such as ISSUE-12345 using the CLI?
How do I find the parent field type (maybe it has to do something with the configuration, see Caveats at the Additional context below)

Please provide following details

1. JiraCLI Version:

   (Version="1.5.1", GitCommit="0e0f82d52ef5a775d2cc662fbe38d9732b9b5c59", CommitDate="2024-01-20T10:48:06+00:00", GoVersion="go1.21.5", Compiler="gc", Platform="darwin/arm64")
   

2. Are you using Jira cloud or on-premise jira server?

   SERVER INFO
   -----------
   
   Version:         1001.0.0-SNAPSHOT
   Build Number:    100252
   Deployment Type: Cloud
   Default Locale:  en_US
   

3. What operating system are you using? Also mention version.

   ProductName:		macOS
   ProductVersion:		14.4.1
   BuildVersion:		23E224
   

4. What terminal are you using? Also mention version.

   iTerm 2 Build 3.4.23
   

To Reproduce

See description.

Expected behavior

The parent field to be set and once set, it must be listed in jira epic list <parent issue number>.

Screenshots

This how the parent field look in the browser

Additional context

• How can I set custom fields on issue creation? #346
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-articles/Introducing-the-new-Parent-field-in-company-managed-projects/ba-p/2377758