Automate User Field to capture user named in Summary

[Derek Tonin]

We're looking to capture users named in Summary's in a custom field. The user name is input from a API call, so its very reliable in being the same as our User Display Names.

What I don't know how to do is capture the user name and then use it to then set the custom user field to that user.

Our Summary format is like this, with User Name always at the end of the Summary:
Triggered Alert - Escalation in New York - USER NAME

Thanks!

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Derek Tonin 

When you need to set a user field, you will need the accountId.  To get that value, you could call the REST API to get all users, and use the match() or other text functions to then find the accountId from the web request response.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Darryl Lee]

Hey @Derek Tonin -

There's a terrific example of how to grab a user name from the Description field and use the REST API just as @Bill Sheboy was talking about:

• Populate a user picker field from the description field 

[Derek Tonin]

Thanks this is really helpful! It appears though that since we're on Jira Server, the Create Variable action is unavailable to us. Is there any way to do this without that step?

[Derek Tonin]

Hey guys,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. With some tinkering, I figured out how to make this work in my instance of Jira server.

I ended up skipping the step of creating a variable and inserting the match function directly into my API call. 

It also turned out that my instance of jira server doesn't return accountID on the API call, but using the user key worked out fine.

Cheers!

[Darryl Lee]

Oh, my bad for not seeing you're on Server! Yes, the calls are a little different.

And YES you don't need to create a variable and in the olden days (Pepperidge Farm remembers), it was often more reliable to skip them.