Advice for updating request participants using JSON

[Ian Guyette]

Been at this for hours and it's starting to drive me nuts, so any help is really really appreciated. 

In the "More Options" portion of one of my automations that transitions issues, I have this bit of code: 

{
"update": {
"Request participants" : [
{
"add": {
"id": "[~accountid:{{issue.customfield_11200}}]"
}
}
]
}
}

It is taken directly from the Request Participants example on Jira's support page, and yet it errors out every time saying that no valid value was supplied for the update to customfield_10130, which is Request Participants. https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/advanced-field-editing-using-json/

This tells me that I'm targeting that Request Participants successfully, but for some reason Jira refuses to take the value I've supplied, a user from a different custom field, as an input. I believe I'm following documentation to a T, but clearly I'm doing something wrong.

Anyone do this before with any degree of success? 

[Marc - Devoteam · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ian Guyette 

You could try, the following

{{issue.customfield_11220.accountId}}

{
"update": {
"Request participants" : [
{
"add": {
"id": "{{issue.customfield_11220.accountId}}"
}
}
]
}
}

Or in your automation you should create a variable that will get the account ID from the user specified in customfield_11200

Then use that variable in the more options

[Ian Guyette]

Thanks so much Marc, bad syntax on my part it seems. Have a great day!