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How do I filter Activity Stream by a username with spaces in it?

Nicholas Segal

To create an Activity Stream dashboard in Jira and view the tickets you commented on, you can go to Dashboards > Create Dashboard and add an Activity Stream gadget to it. This Activity Stream can be filtered by users. The filter separates each username with a space.

What can you do if your username or someone else's username has a space in it? Advanced answers accepted.

Accepted answers

Robert Tuxbury

I can not get username to work for Jira. I have tried all the above options including the unique id they use now. I tried many case solutions as well for each solution.

All comments

Gabriel Senna

Hi Nicholas,

How things are going with you?

I would like to know if you could solve this issue or not.

Could you please let us know?

Nicholas Segal

Hi Gabriel,

I gave up after 2+ hours of trying.

sanmattel.marydasan@momed.com

facing same issue...

Carlos Peinado

Yeah, same issue here, cannot figure out a solution

Michael Durbin

Same here.... tried quotes, single quotes, nothing works...

Mark Noble_ytocs6

Same issue here. Judging by the time stamps I'm not optimistic about a fix.

Also, it's apparently fixed in the Server version - just not cloud. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-26881

Dan Beavon_yf40hb

This is very inconvenient when attempting to track an individual users activity across Jira and Confluence cloud. Anyone know of a work around or a different gadget?

Craig Dawson

+1 same issue

Alexey Klimets

Same here, I really need this gadget to track my activity;
Please fix this.

Glenn Gilbert

Tried all combinations of username. Nothing works.

Examples:

John Doe

"John Doe"

John_Doe

John+Doe

john doe

etc, etc, etc...

Unimpressed

BTW this USED TO WORK and broke 6 months ago approx.

Dylan Meares

first.last worked for me.

Pretty terrible there's nothing to suggest this.. You would think it would start to auto-populate when you start typing..

Glenn Gilbert

Yay. Have a biscuit. Or better still a pint on me.

JIRA Support - you're lacking. In fact you should buy Dylan's beer and mine for that matter.

Dylan Meares

Worth mentioning it must all be lowercase lol

Pedro Torres_gb2d8x

@Dylan Meares thank you so much!! you saved my day

Eli Nelson

Also experiencing this problem in cloud, and unfortunately, first.last is not working, either.

Edit: I wonder if the IS / IS NOT operators for Username only accept null/empty and not null. Using "IS NOT" and null/empty is the only way I can get this filter to return any results.

Pedro Torres_gb2d8x

Try what comes before the @ in the user's email. Like "test" for "test@gmail.com"

Eli Nelson

I've tried that. Our display names are FirstName LastName, and our emails are usually first.last@domain.com, or jdoe@domain.com. I've also tried (for the benefit of others):

first.last
firstlast
First Last
FirstLast
each of the above with (), "", and ("")
first.last@domain.com
First.Last
FirstLast
@FirstLast
@First Last
@First Last
@first last
first
last

I tried variants with different users, just in case there was a role issue.

Literally the only configuration that will call up any results using the Username filter is

Username Is Not empty
Username Is Not null

Inéz

Use "first last"

It worked for me

Jerry Lin_bgvsl8

nope ..... not even with the ""

Inéz

it should be without ""

like:

first last

Mikael Elkiær

I got this working by using the name part of the e-mail, e.g. john when having a mail of john@company-domain.com.
However, I am trying to filter Tempo Timesheets logs, as it is spamming, but it doesn't seem that it has a username...

Craig Dawson_94pqos

Yes!

Adam Scott_wz5s4r

*EDIT* It seems only to work for Confluence, sorry.

I found how!

Atlassian seems to have removed the usernames from their systems, so do not try to recreate manually a username.

On a unfiltered activity, copy the link of the user you want to filter.

Capture d’écran de 2019-09-10 12-06-38.png

Then, copy the link somewhere to extract the accountId parameter.

If you insert the accountId in the username field, it should filter the user.

Eli Nelson

Really neat idea - I tried it on Jira and it didn't work, unfortunately. The only workable option for Username continues to be "Is Not Empty" for me.

Eli Nelson

I've also tried

first last (with and without (), "", and (""))

Gabor Hrasko

This works on Confluence for me.

Janene Pappas

Seriously this doesn't work? *insert head bash here*

Polyna Makarenko

Well, I have the same problem! AAAAAAA DEVELOPERS HELP US ASAP!

Jack Everard

firstname.lastname worked for me

Danylo Dotsenko

For anyone still wondering, if you take the email your Atlassian account is registered to, and truncate the domain, the resulting 'username' should work!

Ex: (johnsmith@gmail.com) -> Add 'johnsmith' as your username for the Widget filter. Worked for me!

AshC

They updated the filter to be case sensitive, the proper syntax for most are is

Firstname.Lastname

This needs to be the first and last name displayed in the app, so if there was a typo of someone does not have a capital letter for one of their names this needs to be reflected in the filter.

Lanny Heidbreder

I have yet another anecdotal "This worked for me!" suggestion.

My full name is

Lanny Heidbreder

My email address is

lanny.heidbreder@company.com

And the string that finally worked for me in the JIRA activity feed username filter is

Lanny.Heidbreder

Only that exact capitalization worked; when I made it all lowercase as one of the previous replies suggested, it didn't work at all. When I used a space instead of a dot, it also didn't work.

I couldn't begin to guess whether the correct algorithm is "Take the username part of your email address with the capitalization your admin typed in, even if it shows up lowercase on your profile", or "Take your full name with original capitalization, replacing spaces with dots", or something else entirely.

Mikael Elkiær

I actually discovered something really useful.
So my problem wasn't as much discovering usernames for people, but for a plugin - Tempo Timesheets to be exact. I tried any ID I could find, as well as any combination of firstname.surname etc., but none of them worked.

Then I figured out that if I did an advanced search, e.g. for a Reporter, it would suggest both name and username (switching to username when picked from auto-complete).

First search (username is already visible in parantheses and in tooltip):

Then by selecting the user from the suggestions, it will insert the complete username:

I then used that "username" in the filtering - and it actually worked!

Tom Wong_9rrjfm

I find that really comical. I actually find this whole thread comical that filtering for usernames can have such inconsistencies in how it works across different installations.

ernestas.babachinas

I got the same problem.

I could filter some of the users, but some of them are not possible to include in the filter.

I tried various combination

Any recommendations would be useful.

Eric Smith_7ssbnw

My company uses firstname.lastname and my activity field wouldnt work. However, some of the accounts are on a different domain with the username flastname (first letter of first name and last name) and they were coming through fine. I swapped the firstname.lastname usernamess for their account id from a comment @mention and all the firstname.lastname accounts started working.

EDIT: Nope, was only confluence

Brandon Loudermilk

OMG this worked -- what a pain

Robert Tuxbury

I can not get username to work for Jira. I have tried all the above options including the unique id they use now. I tried many case solutions as well for each solution.

Tudor Brad_r872ey

I need to be able to create activity streams to track activity per username! it no longer works

Glib Bakhtin

Had the same case, what worked for me is to check the source code of any page in Jira and look for "ajs-remote-user" you should find something like <meta name="ajs-remote-user" content="some numbers here"> copy the content value - it's your username.

Tudor Brad_r872ey

Haha, this worked!!! Finally, thanks Robert.

Artem_5v11qx

09 of June 2020 Cloud Confluence/Jira

Worked solution is to use the user ID that looks like 557059:2897fef1-2886-4c7c-8a4c-018a5199d993 or 5dd65aa4b093df0eedfa4600

To retrieve it use issues filter, apply user rule, choose the user, switch to JQL
His ID will be in the JQL line like

... AND assignee in (557059:2897fef1-2886-4c7c-8a4c-018a5199d993) ORDER BY...

or by opening Users profile https://yoursubdomain.atlassian.net/jira/people/search. Then the user ID will appear in his URL (at the end).

NB! activity stream is a bit odd still. For some users, it shows Confluence events only.
To get Jira events try to use an Activity filter with a combination of Username is not conditions. Use commas to apply more user IDs to a filter.

Artem_5v11qx

check my answer below

NamVH

good for me too

John Lee_s153nu

This worked for me.

Lucas Stroutinski

Hi all ,

My company use a lot the jira automation system in order to create , edit and transit issues .

The "Automation for Jira" user generated by the automation system do a lots of modification , is it possible to keep the activity stream free for the "Automation for Jira" user ?

I've tried all the naming possible , and the user id but neither of them work...

Any ideas ?

Tudor Brad

Hi guys, I figured it out.

Create a random activity stream with everybody in it. Then pop-up the network developer tools, filter for XHR only, and clear previous data.

In the UI, click "Show More...". Notice that a couple of API requests are showing up in the console. Find the "Streams" one. It should look like this:

URL: https://xxx.atlassian.net/plugins/servlet/streams?maxResults=297&relativeLinks=true&streams=key+IS+xxx&issues=activity+IS+comment%3Apost+issue%3Aclose+issue%3Aupdate+issue%3Areopen+issue%3Aresolve+issue%3Atransition&_=1597951461619

Copy the entire response from the server in Visual Studio Code (or another good text editor) then search for the <usr:username> variable. You'll see them all there!

Lucas Stroutinski

its worked thanks !

Lucas Stroutinski

The method send by @Tudor Brad worked , and i've been able to find this goddamn id .
By the way if anyone wonder what's the username of the "Automation for Jira" user , its : addon_com.codebarrel.addons.automation

unknown

Our usernames are our email addresses in the form of

first.last@company.co.nz

What worked for me was using

first.last

Nedzad Hodzic

Thanks @Mikael Elkiær , it worked for filtering Tempo from activity stream. Good one to use JQL to find out plugin username.

Ümit Bas

Great thanks! This worked for me too.

Randdy Feliz

Hello,

Steps to resolve this incident:

You must be a JIRA administrator to be able to log in with the affected user.

1. Enter the JIRA user administration
2. Log in with the affected user's account
3. Go to the user's profile
4. On that page, secondary click
5. View Page Source
6. Ctrl F (search)
7- Place ajs-remote-user
8. Copy this ID
9. Paste in the Activity Stream username filter

If you need more help please write to my email: randdyfeliz@hotmail.com

bastian.eichler

@Lucas Stroutinski You are my hero of the day. Thank you!!! I was looking to remove the Automation for Jira messages for so long and almost gave up.

Rado

Awesome! Worked perfectly fine

Ngo Hoang Viet_yveusl

Worked fine till now (13 Oct 2021)

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