Set user picker field based on text field

Question

Hi,

We would like to populate a user picker field like assignee or similar field based on free text field.

The free text field has the full name or display name of our users.

We have scriptrunner and are struggling to set this up

We have tried to use this approach with no luck, https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-to-get-the-username-of-a-user-from-a-string-that-is-the-full/qaq-p/1393766

Thanks

Sam

Ram Kumar Aravindakshan _Adaptavist_ · Answer

Hi @Sam Bartolome

Could you please provide a little more information, i.e. when would you like to populate the Assignee field?

Is it on the Create screen via Behaviour or are you trying to do this via Listener or Post-Function?

Kindly provide this information, and I will try to provide an example code.

Thank you and Kind regards,

Ram

mgokhan · Answer

Hi,
Full name or display name is not uniqe definer. so you can reach user id but it will not permanent solution in long term.