How to display Assignee Display name as part of custom field in VM template

Question

I have custom field of type assignee, in vm template I have following code : $issue.getCustomFieldValue($customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject("customfield_10510")) I get result as assignname plus extra number e.g john-10001 , but I want display name as "John Smith" Please let me know the solution. Thanks MR

Mangesh Rane · Answer

Nic,

getDisplayName(), resolved the issue.

Also is there any proper documentation on VM templates development or list of all functions.

Please lets know. Thanks.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Kewl.  There is some documentation on Apache Velocity's site at  http://velocity.apache.org/, but the layout of the site is awful and it's dreadful to try to find anything useful, and even then, there's no obvious examples or human-friendly guides.  The closest I've found to anything readable is https://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/user-guide.html

It's also generalised, and most people here need more about the Atlassian stuff than velocity.  My fallback there is https://developer.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4227172and a bit of brute force "try exposing all the context and see what's actually useful"

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

You have not got a custom field of type "assignee", I suspect you mean "user picker"?  (Assignee is a system field, you can't add more)

Anyway, your code is fetching the content of a custom field.  In most cases, this will be an object, which you then need to question further to get a human description instead of a best-guess representation of the object.  For a user object, you usually use .getDisplayName().

In short, try

$issue.getCustomFieldValue($customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject("customfield_10510")).getDisplayName()