automation condition o request participant.

[Ben]

Hi,

i need to make an automation rule based on a request participant. 

an issue is created via email. the address is an alias. the address is populated into the request participants.

the rule is attached:

the triggers works, but the comparison fails. 

any thoughts?

thanks

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ben 

Request participants are displayed with names and not emails. Try using their names.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

[Ben]

When the issue is created, the request participant field shows the email address not a user name.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Oook. But you do understand that I've just pasted an image that my rule worked, right?

Can you paste where exactly you select the request participant, when the issue is created? Maybe this will help me identify the possible cause, which to me the rule works, but it fails in your instance.

[Ben]

yes, it was clear that your rule worked.

the request participants are set by email. just as you create an email based request with a CC, then the CC becomes the request participant. 

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

After your trigger add a Re-fetch issue data component. You have to do this, because when the issue is created, the log of Request Participant returns as EMPTY.

[Ben]

yes! that worked :)

Thank you!

How did you realize that?

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

I've added a Log after the trigger to capture the value of request participants. It seems that CCs are added as request participants in a later stage, after email creation. Confusing, I know, but that's what's happening :/

[Ben]

neat trick :) i'll keep that in mind.

thanks for looking into this and helping out!

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Anytime dude!

[Evan Yao]

Hi @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ 

Your comment here is super helpful. Knowing that email CCs are added as request participants in a later stage after email creation, how will I be able to to create an IF condition based on request participants? Because when the automation is triggered, request participants are always empty, so the condition will never be met. I tried "re-fetch issue data" but still no luck getting the condition . 

Is there some sort of delay I can add here to make sure request participants are in place when the automation checks the IF condition?

Thanks!  

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@Evan Yao re-fetch the data right after the trigger. Do that and let me know if that worked.

[Ahmar Mahmood]

@Alex Koxaras _Relational_ I have an alias alias1@email.com to alias@email.com. 

I need to add alias1@email.com as a request participant when the issue is created via alias1 and then route it to the respective queue. 

The request participant field is always empty even added a refetch of the data right after the issue creation trigger

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@Ahmar Mahmood create a new post please.

[Nicolas Bernard-Thomassin]

I need to apply the same automation to a "Cascade Option" field that is not yet available in the Automation.

It is only available in Legacy automation for now.

Anyone knows if it is possible to write a condition in JQL that would be the same as 

"Request particpants contains any of [insert list of request parcipants]".

I am not convinced that the following JQL will act as "contains any of" and may act as "request participants are EXACTLY either user1, user2 or user3" :

"Request participants" in (User1, User2, User3)