Creating Issues via direct HTML links: How do I find out current logged in user?

[Riad KACED]

I have created some documentation on Confluence for my colleagues to use. I would like to allow them create a Jira issue from my page as described in Creating Issues via direct HTML links. Here is a sample of my HTML code:

<a href="https://seg-jira.csg.apple.com/secure/CreateIssueDetails!init.jspa?pid=10000&issuetype=4&summary=''&reporter=Riad Kaced">[File a Jira Task]</a>

Reporter being a mandatory field, I would like to set it to the current logged-in user. It is hard-coded to myself in the example above, however I want to improve my code to use the current logged-in user instead. A similar topic was discussed @ How do I find out current logged in user? The answer was: 

ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()

Pasting the above verbatim into my HTML code won't work, hence my question: How to find the current logged in user with a syntax I can incorporate in my HTML code?

Cheers

[roman smatana]

Hi,

If you are on Confluence and using the same user base as on JIRA, you can derive the current user in Confluence User Macro with

#set($reporter= $paramReporter)
#if (!$reporter)
#set ($reporter=$action.remoteUser.name)
#end

and complete whole HTML link.... like....

<a href="$paramJiraurl/secure/CreateIssueDetails!init.jspa?pid=$paramProjectid&issuetype=$paramIssuetype&reporter=$reporter&assignee=$assignee&summary=$paramSummary&description=$paramDescription&$paramAppendtext">$paramLinktext</a>

Check User Macros in Confluence for more.

this worked for us, I hope this help to you as well.

[Payne]

Not specifying the reporter should cause the field to default to the currently logged-in user, just as is the case when you click the Create button, but there is a bug that causes that not to happen - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-25308 A workaround mentions using a Behaviour, which you may consider doing if you have ScriptRunner installed.

[Martin Hollerweger]

Issue is still open.