Unable to set up Service Desk Automation

[David Work Sr]

I can't set up Service Desk Automation. I get this error:

"Choose a different user so your automation rules will run as intended

The selected user has been deleted.

You can make an exception to this default user in the set-up of individual rules.

The rules won't run as you intend unless the user you've chosen:

• can view issues in this service desk
• has permission to perform the actions in this rule"

.. and there are no users to select. If I add a custom rule, and attempt to set a user, I get this error:

"Run rule as: Project default (Invalid user)"

I have no idea how to set up a user with appropriate permissions and how to remedy this issue. I also don't see where project default users are set up.

[Sekhar Vajjhala · Accepted solution]

I wasted a good 30 min on this. Thanks to the person who suggested "And if you try to type a name, it does not appear? ". Terrible UX and since 2018!!!

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Go to project settings -> automation to change the default user:

You can grant the Browse Projects permission to user if you go to project settings -> permissions

[David Work Sr]

The problem is that there are NO users with acceptable permissions. I have several roles for "Browse Projects" and have roles listed in every category, but again, there are NO users displayed or available for selection.

[Alexey Matveev]

Are these users granted a Jira Service Desk license?

[David Work Sr]

Yes. I'm really only concerned with me -- I'm the site admin with permissions to everything. NO user shows up, not even me.

[Alexey Matveev]

And if you try to type a name, it does not appear? 

[David Work Sr]

Now I feel totally stupid. Yes, if I type into the field, names appear. I was thrown because no names showed up on the initial drop down. This seems to fix the problem. Thank you.

[Alexey Matveev]

You are welcome! I also think that it is not a good behaviour, if users are not shown if you open the list of users without typing a name. Hopefully, it will be fixed later.

[Sergio Pedercini]

I'm here for the same issue and this thread helped me to solve the problem. Thank you. But... really, this is a really big HOLE in your software UX. Please fix it. :-)

[Paul Joyce]

yep. worst bit of UX for the week.

[Tina]

Thank you for posting this.  I've been doing search after search trying to figure out why there are no users. And here you go, start typing the name instead of using the drop down.  Thank you!!!!!

[Ben Rhodes]

Just adding to the list of people who hadn't started typing the name and was searching for an answer. Thanks for the extra level of detail.

[Jordan Sokolic]

Please fix this, Atlassian.

Terrible UX.

[Steve Norris]

I just wasted 20 minutes on this as well.  At least I know I'm not alone in this world.

[Alessandro Lombardo]

I found the same problem, Please fix it . I can't change the default user that makes the rule run.

[Sergio Pedercini]

Yes, you can Alessandro, take a look inside the discussion of the accepted answer. It's enough you start typing a name in the input field, to see the list of the available users. ;-) 

[Alessandro Lombardo]

YEAH, it's correct. I'm sorry, I missed some answers in this discussion. Thank you very much

[Christopher Jones]

Thanks for the thread.  Still crappy in May 2020.

[Tony Schaps]

Still a thing in April 2020, glad I found this thread. Thanks!

[Nick Savage]

Good grief it's still an issue. Spent 20-30 minutes until stumbled onto this page.

[Stefano Stella]

Still an issue as of Jan 2022... @atlassian, please fix this, along with dark UI

[Eva Suárez]

Same issue. Until I found the article I kept thinking it had something to do with permissions as no names were displayed in the drop down menu. 

[Mohammed AlSayed]

so I am not alone, I faced the same issue and could not figure it out until I reached this thread 

it's really something that need be reconsidered by JIRA UX team.