How to mention the author in a comment?

Question

Is it possible to mention the task author in a comment?

You can mention other users with "@" or in brackets (text mode) like: [~username.xy]. I would like to use this feature to mention the author of the task like: [~author]. The idea is that jira would replace the author placeholder to the name of the author.

Hana Kučerová · Answer

Hi @zugch ,

thank you for the clarification. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any way, how to do this :-(.

zugch · Answer

Hi @Vero Rivas

I already did know how to mention someone. My question was more about how to insert the authors name automatically. Thanks anyway!

zugch · Answer

Hi @Hana Kučerová

Because I often get tickets with the same question/task, I defined a standard answer to copy/paste into those tickets. To be more "personal", it would be nice to greet the authors with their names automaticly. And for that, it would be the easiest way if jira transformes [~author] to [~user.name].

So it is not about the notifications.