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jira issue view

  • Usage: jira issue view KEY... [flags]

Fetch one or more issues with rendered fields, names, schema, transitions, and operations expanded. Use it when you need the full issue context before editing, commenting, or transitioning.

--fields narrows the fetched payload to the named fields, matching the selector on jira search jql. A narrowed read skips the transitions, operations, and editmeta expansions — omit --fields when you need the edit context.

--web opens a single issue URL and does not call Jira beyond reading the configured base URL. Multiple issue keys are fetched with bounded parallelism and return partial results when some keys fail.

Output

--fields <FIELD>…

Narrow each issue to these fields, comma-separated [example: summary,status,assignee]

--web

Open the issue in a browser instead of printing it

Execution

-p --parallelism <N>

Maximum concurrent requests (1-16)

Default: 1

Output fields

With --output json, the response envelope's data object carries these fields. Run jira agent schema for the full machine-readable schema.

Field Type Description
failed integer Multi-key form only: count of keys that errored.
issue.comments[] object Fields: author, body, created, id, self, updateAuthor, …
issue.editmeta object Fields: fields
issue.fields object Fields: assignee, comment, components, created, description, fixVersions, …
issue.id string
issue.key string
issue.linked_issues[] object
issue.self string
issue.subtasks[] object
issue.transitions[] object Fields: hasScreen, id, name
issue.worklogs[] object Fields: comment, id, started, timeSpentSeconds
opened boolean --web form only: whether the browser launch succeeded.
results[].error object Present when ok is false; the standard error entry.
results[].issue object Present when ok is true; the full issue.
results[].key string
results[].ok boolean
succeeded integer Multi-key form only: count of keys that resolved.
url string --web form only: the browse URL that was opened.

Examples

jira issue view PROJ-123
jira issue view PROJ-123 --fields summary,status,assignee # (1)!
jira issue view PROJ-1 PROJ-2 PROJ-3 --parallelism 4 # (2)!
jira issue view PROJ-123 --web # (3)!
  1. Fetch only the fields you need
  2. View several issues, four requests at a time
  3. Open an issue in the browser instead of printing it