Creating match codes based on name of employee

Question

Hello everyone,

I have a question please I want to create match codes automatically for the employees based on their name for example

this will form the Matchcode. For example, for John Doe match code is - JD also

Check the existing Matchcode list, if the same match code exists, add the number incrementally. So if GP is existing, add “1“ to the new match code, thus - JD1

Sayed Bares [ServiceRocket] · Accepted Answer

Hi Ravyar,

You will need to write your own script to  make this work. Ideally, a script which extracts the first character from the first name and then second character from the last name and then use an incremental function based on a set of already created entries.

Further, you can write these codes in that Jira specific user property entry using the following REST API:

* https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-user-properties/#api-rest-api-3-user-properties-propertykey-put

I hope it helps.