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In Jira Automation how can I set assignee to a "Firstname Lastname" value I get from another field?

Kyle_bbm45q

I am using OpsGenie Cloud with Jira Cloud and have configured the OpsGenie integration to add a comment to the Jira issue when an OpsGenie user acts on an alert. The comment that is added to the Jira issue looks like:

[Opsgenie]: Firstname Lastname acknowledged alert: "Alert Title"

I would like to assign the Jira issue to the "Firstname Lastname" user who is mentioned in the comment. All of my OpsGenie users are valid Jira users.

I am able to use the smart field {{comment.body.match(": (\w+ \w+) ")}} to pull out the "Firstname Lastname" string from the comment. I tried using that smartvalue to set Assignee but it fails. It seems that I need an accountID to set Assignee. How can I look up the accountID for that "Firstname Lastname" string?

Thanks for any advice.

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Kyle

There is an open suggestion to find users by name from within an automation rule: https://codebarrel.atlassian.net/browse/AUT-725

As a work-around (albeit a slower one) you could use a webrequest to call the REST API with a user search to get the account ID, and use that for assignment. Here are some references if you want to try that approach:

Best regards,
Bill

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Kyle

There is an open suggestion to find users by name from within an automation rule: https://codebarrel.atlassian.net/browse/AUT-725

Best regards,
Bill

Kyle_bbm45q

Thanks for the pointers to those articles Bill. I'll try the REST API way.

Kyle_bbm45q

@Bill Sheboy with some experimentation I totally got it working. I like it. Thanks again for the pointers to a solution.

For future reference here are the automation steps that I used:

1. a "Send web request" step configured as follows

- Webhook URL: https://<put-your-sitename-here>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/user/search?query={{comment.body.match("\[Opsgenie\]:\s(\w+\s\w+)\s").urlEncode}}

that smart field match gets the "firstname lastname" from the comment and urlEncodes it to be part of the REST API query parameter, use your own regex in this place

- Headers: Authorization = Basic <my-API-key-encoded-per-that-other-article>

- HTTP method: GET

- Webhook body: Empty

- check Delay execution of subsequent rule actions to that the next step can use the returned value

2. an "Edit issue fields" step which sets Assignee to

Adrian Danemayer

@Kyle Thanks for the detailed solution, this solved a very troublesome task I had been stumped on for some time. For anyone who is in a similar situation, I was unable to execute the user lookup by email address from a python script remotely due to GDPR restrictions, but this webhook executed in the Automation panel apparently circumvents that block.

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