How to Set the User Who Triggered a Status Transition as the Assignee

[Vasily Prokhorov]

Our users would like to set the assignee of an issue to the person who transitioned it to a specific status.

The use case is that the user who transitioned the issue will then be working on it.

As I'm not aware of such a post function in JMWE, I welcome any suggestion :)

[Brant Schroeder · Accepted solution]

There is a delivered post function you can add to the workflow called "assign to current user" that should do what you are looking for.

[David Fischer]

If you’re just trying to assign the issue to the user transitioning the issue, you can also use the Set Field Value post function to set the Assignee to the following Groovy Expression:

currentUser