Automation Rule to Populate a User Picker field based on another User Picker Field

[Brittney Hinesly]

Today I spent a long time getting an automation to work and thought I'd share since I didn't find exactly what I was working on in the community forum.

I needed to populate the approver field with the selected manager from the JSM request.

the rule I created was 

Trigger:

When Issue Created

If: Issue Fields Condition

     Request Type

     equals

     "Find Request Type Name"

Then: Edit Issue

More Options

     Additional Fields

          {
                "fields": {
"Approvers": [
          {
                "accountId": "{{issue.customField_xxxxx.accountId}}"
          }
     ]
  }
}