Write an automation rule to get a Hiring Manager information from Description Field

Question

Hi there, I have an issue with description field.

I want to take the value of Hiring Manager: John Smith from the description field and assign this issue to the hiring manager.  In this example , it will be John Smith.

Any suggestions on how I can achieve this?

Thanks

SP

Bob Dalm · Answer

sharos.pillai · Answer

Hi Piyush,

Position Title: Production Assistant

Hiring Manager: Tara Jacobs

Department: Program

The match did not work.

Thanks

SP

Piyush Annadate _ACE Pune_ · Answer

Hi @sharos.pillai ,
If your description have 'Manager' details, then you can use regular expression to get that information. 
Ref. https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-text-fields/

Example I've below data in description:

Title: Onboarding Request 
Hiring Manager: Piyush Annadate 
Status: In Process

With above, I will use automation to extract Hiring manager name value, i.e. create a variable and have the value as below:

Once you get the above, then you have to DO a web request to fetch the correct user matching the display name. Below will result all the matching users as Piyush Annadate, eventually it search for all users having Piyush. You have to perform a iteration to match the exact.

/rest/api/2/user/search?query=Piyush%20Annadate