JQL - assignee is replaced with ID

Question

Hi, Everyone.

For my board - I do have custom JQL query, where one of items to filter on is Assignee.
I need to specify list of people there, so just write "assignee in (...)".

Once I type the user - Jira finds it, but it puts ID of the user instead of label at least (name and surname).
I assume it might be related to GDPR stuff, but system anyway allows to search for the user. So it's super unclear, why can't Atlassian simply replace IDs with label on JQL stuff load...

Once label is replaced with ID - JQL string becomes extremely unusable, cause I can't really understand who is that user.

How can I overcome this?

p.s. I saw this thread, but it takes nowhere... https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Assignee-name-is-converted-to-Id-in-JQL/qaq-p/1309480

p.p.s I see at least couple of solutions at the top of my head. One is to resolve user label during JQL load for edit. Another option is to let JQL author - specify label for this ID to manually identify user name)

Eugene Pavliy · Answer

Yes, but I'll have to type it in manually.
Current picker makes no sense to me because it replaces user with ID.

Fazila Ashraf · Answer

Hi @Eugene Pavliy

You can use email address or display name of the user instead of the account id.

See https://blog.developer.atlassian.com/announcement-changes-to-username-search-term-in-jql-for-jira-cloud/ for more information

Eugene Pavliy · Answer

Then let's get back to initial question - how do you guys propose to manage such query then? :)

assignee in (5aef0380b80fc232f236a269, 5c3348f87072062f71e64826, 5b713d3ff4ff1c06135dca01)

I found it completely unusable, cause I cannot add new users or remove existing later - IDs say nothing to me. I'm just curious also, why you allow to search and select (with showing user name and surname). Or why you allow to show user name and surname in Jira board "Assignee"...  But cannot later load that data for JQL edit... That seems unlogical to me.

p.s. One of things that worked - just specify assignee in ("User Name"). But I'm not sure how long it will work or Atlassian will make it deprecated.