Setting assignee based on issue description

Jane Smith_b5s4a1

I'm working on a Jira automation rule where I'm trying to grab the assign the user to a task based on a task description. I first grab the substring from the description, and that substring contains the assignee display name as it appears in Jira. However, when I try to assign that string to the displayName attribute, nothing happens. 

Could someone please help me work through this?

 

In the JSON box under "More options" in the rule configuration, I have the following right now:

{

"fields": {

"Assignee":[{"displayName":"{{issue.description.substringAfter("Assignee: ")}}"}]

}

}

Mikael Sandberg

You need to use the Atlassian ID for the assignee field, so you would have to use the web request component to send a request to either Get account IDs for users or find users and then get the ID from the result. Your JSON should look something like this:

{ "fields": { "assignee": { "id": "{{webhookData.accountId}}" } } }