Can I use Component Lead to fill in custom user picker in automation?

Question

I want to set a custom single user picker field (Reviewer) to the issue's Component Lead, as our reviewer are our component leads so Reviewer is automatically set at issue creation (can't add it from import, seems to always fail).

Is there a way to get the Component Lead user to use in an automation?

* {{issue.components.XXXX}} is always empty when I try with "assignee", "leads", etc. and i don't know if there is a smart value I can use for:

{
"fields": {
"Reviewer": "{{issue.components.????}}."
}
}

* The custom user picker doesn't let me set or copy from Component, only other issue types (parent, Epic, current issue). I guess Components are not issues.

I tried saving the initial assignee, re-assigning the issue to AUTOMATIC (component lead), setting the reviewer to copy from assignee and then re-set set the assignee to the original, but its a convoluted way to get the component lead user.

Darryl Lee · Answer

Hello @Martin Rodriguez -

If you can screenshots of what you've tried and any error messages, that's helpful for troubleshooting.

But for a good tutorial on how to connect Automation to the REST API (including a little more details about the authentication and encoding bit, which is a bit of a hassle), I would recommend checking this out:

* Automation for Jira - Send web request using Jira REST API

Martin Rodriguez_mze6v1 · Answer

I tried to emulate what you showed and investigated some but couldn't make it work.

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

In it's simplest form the automation would look something like this:

Note that you should encode64 the credentials in the webhook and/or make it hidden once you verified that it is working.