Label for Current User

[justin romeo]

Is there anyway to create a label for an individual so that i can create a JQL such as 

Label = currentUser()

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

A label is a tag with a name which can be anything, a user is an object representing an account that someone uses to access your systems.

The types of data in these two fields is very different and label = user would require a LOT of coding to make even the basic idea work.

I think you would be better served by having a field that's a multi-user select list for "people with an interest", or possibly even better, just use "watchers"

[justin romeo]

I'm trying to use Jira issues for meetings (so people can log work). For each meeting the person in charge of that meeting creates the issue and people attending will go to his/her card to log work.

In order to make it easier for people to see meetings I'm trying to create a board. I started by having individuals watch issues and have a board that shows:

watcher = currentUser() AND resolution = Unresolved AND labels in (Meetings, meetings) ORDER BY duedate DESC, updated DESC

The issue with this was people were receiving too many emails and so i am now looking at having user labels. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

User labels will not solve that problem.

Why not use a custom field for "attendees"?

[Sudarshan]

Yeah, that is a good idea, a user based custom field (with multiple addition option)

[Sachin]

Hello @justin romeo , I don't think that is possible. Because, currentUser() is a inbuilt function in Jira that can only be used by logged-in users. Also, can you explain little more on what you are trying to achieve here. Thank you!

[Sudarshan]

Yes, Like Sachin mentioned, Jira Label are like tags.! 
Is your request more like you want to add multiple users to a ticket.? 

currently only one member can be attached to a ticket.

or to find current user at every state of the ticket-- create a workflow and as the ticket moves from one status to another, the responsible members must take it (assignee)

[justin romeo]

I'm trying to use Jira issues for meetings (so people can log work). For each meeting the person in charge of that meeting creates the issue and people attending will go to his/her card to log work.

In order to make it easier for people to see meetings I'm trying to create a board. I started by having individuals watch issues and have a board that shows:

watcher = currentUser() AND resolution = Unresolved AND labels in (Meetings, meetings) ORDER BY duedate DESC, updated DESC

The issue with this was people were receiving too many emails and so i am now looking at having user labels. 

[Sudarshan]

@justin romeo here is a link which should be useful to you
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Managing-Assignee-when-you-do-Pair-Programming/ba-p/1268008