Avatar and name shown on all Atlassian products?

Question

Hi,

The latest announcement says that my avatar and name will be shown on all Atlassian products (and I'm forced to do choose at login time). This is not what I want.

Internally, we use Jira Cloud, and there, I want my full name and picture to be shown to all my colleagues.

However, on public sites out there, where I have logged issues or asked questions, I do not want my full real name and pictures to be shown.

How do I do that? Create different accounts and logout/login each time?

Thanks.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

The email is being used as a unique identifier, so that people can have multiple accounts.

Thierry · Answer

Using different accounts would work without the pointless (in my view) restriction of having to use different emails on different accounts. It seems like a perfectly valid business case to have an internal corporate only account with full name and picture, and the same person, with the same email, using a more anonymised profile for public-facing Atlassian sites. Disappointing really.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

That's correct - both your understanding about how it works and the way to work around it.

The reason is that Atlassian are using a unified account system.  You get an "Atlassian account" which belongs to you and exists in their user system (id.atlassian.com is the root of it).  You then grant access to that account in Cloud and Atlassian systems (Community, JaC, developer.atalssian.com, my.atlassian.com and so-on).  There is one account, with one avatar, email, name and so-on, with access to many systems.

If you want different names and pictures in different systems, you need to set up another Atlassian account to hold it.  Bear in mind the two accounts must have different email addresses too.