How do I find a user's account ID?

[Cole, David J]

I'm looking to add a fairly simple string in my JQL to say participants= "John Doe". I can't find the account_id of the user and I can't put in their email because JIRA tells me that "@" is a reserved function. When I start typing the user's name, nothing comes up to allow me to pick from a list of users either. 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Cole, David J 

Search for the user through the Teams menu.

When you find the user and open their record the account ID will appear in the URL. In this image I have partially hidden the value with the yellow block.

[Kevin Camera]

Oh my goodness, this was brilliant! For whatever reason, none of the other solutions I could find online helped. I just could not get a drop-down list of users no matter what I did.

This did the trick - I'll take it.

[jlwelch2]

Im confused.  I can find the value in the url just fine, but it has a colon character ( : ) in the middle of it, which makes it very hard to use in a REST API call that requires a JSON payload.  Why would there a : within an ID when that's a reserved JSON character?

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @jlwelch2 

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[Cole, David J]

That worked. Thank you!