How to get "Project Id" to create a Direct Link?

Question

I have my project name, but not the numeric Project Id. The latter is needed to use HTML Direct Links.I'm using JIRA 5.0.1

How do I get the numeric Project Id for a given project name?

I've searched the Project Administration area, several other places, the documentation, Google, etc but still can't find a way to get that value.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The easiest way is to do it from the web browser:

1. Go to the Administration page.
2. Select the Project from the menu.
3. Hover over 'Edit Project' link and check the link href (in the status bar).
   It should be something like http://servername:8080/secure/project/EditProject!default.jspa?pid=10040

Where pid is the id you are looking for.

For Jira 6.x:

• place the cursor on EDIT Project button and
• look at the url being redirected at bottom left of the screen