Filter Activity Stream Gadget by username

[Eric]

I'm having trouble filtering the Activity Stream Gadget by username on a Jira Software Dashboard.  I understand usernames were converted to user account Ids.  I have tried many variations and cannot get data to display for any user who has comments.

Reference articles:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Next-gen-questions/How-can-I-filter-Activity-Stream-gadget-by-username/qaq-p/1391709

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/convert-usernames-to-user-account-i-ds/?_ga=2.246332672.525239113.1590292104-1478559027.1570682324

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[Dave Liao · Accepted solution]

@Eric - hi Eric! One workaround (that I just tested successfully on my Cloud instance) is to find your ajs-remote-user value:

• Go to a Jira issue.
• Check the source code for the page.
• Search for the value "ajs-remote-user" in the code, and use that value as your username. For me, I found <meta name="ajs-remote-user" content="dave.liao">

Does this work for you? I'm sure there are cases where that value might not be present, but hopefully you don't win that lottery.

[Eric]

Thanks for that, it worked to get my own id.  Do you know how to get another user's Id?

[Dave Liao]

Depending on your admin permissions, you can look them up in https://admin.atlassian.com then choose "Log in as user", then look up their IDs individually. It's definitely not a workaround that works at scale...

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Please, vote on that request.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-75065

[David Lewis]

Wow this actually worked.  In my case...my value was "admin" and all my users were like "removed65461324" but it still worked.  We used activity stream a lot when we were on Server so glad to finally have a workaround for this on Cloud.  Thanks Dave!

[jhenson]

I can't believe this basic functionality is still not working a year later...   truly sad