How to get users to show up as name and not ID in a Jira table within Confluence

[Cody Eberhardt]

I have a table in a Confluence page that is pulling data from Jira fields that has users but in the table they are showing up as user ID (Example: 234c6bb83-93snf8349h or firstname.lastname). How can I get them to show up as the users name (EX: John Doe)?

[Chris Buzon · Accepted solution]

This was an intentional change by Atlassian - it's a requirement of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) laws. You won't find an easy answer to this question. 

Here's a thread with an Atlassian reply explaining more:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/When-i-use-user-in-comments-it-shows-userid-is-this-a-jira-bug/qaq-p/1074823