Trying to Automate pulling an email address and assigning a work item to that individual

Brandon Drucker

In the 'description' of this automated work item is the email address of the person assigned to the task. This doesnt really do us any good so I'm trying to automate a way to extract this information and select this person as the 'Assignee' drop down box under the 'Details' section. I havent had much luck and I'm looking for some help here.

Things Ive tried:

I tried creating a variable to extract the Email

@{{issue.description.match("Engineer/Supervisor/Drafter: ([A-Za-z0-9:;_. -/&#]+).*@)}}

and then assign the work item to that smart variable

{{extractedEmail}}

 

I also tried to do an advanced branch to extract the employee ID from that email

{{lookupIssues.extractedEmail.accountId.distinct}}

and then assign the work item to that smart variable

{{employeeID}}

 

 

John Funk

Hi Brandon,

The first thing you mention above should work. Add a Log action after you create the Variable to see what value it has, if any. Also, do an Edit work item to update the Assignee field, and not an Assign work item action.