How do I auto assign tickets on service desk using custom people field?

[Kelly Robinson]

Hi All, 

Hoping you can give me a hand, service desk projects/JIRA is not something I am super familiar with but I've been put on a project at work which requires this solution and somehow I've ended up building it myself. 

I have 3 request types each with a custom people field for requester to specify who needs to work on their request. I am hoping to auto-assign based on the person/user that the requester selects in this field. 

So far I have tried to set up a rule in automation but maybe I am getting the field choices wrong. Could anyone guide me?

This is the page I'm on atm and where I'm up to but cannot get past this spot. My idea was to create a rule for each person we would assign to as there are only around 10. 

[Samuel]

Hello Kelly, and welcome to the Community!

You're definitely on the right track, unfortunately the automation library doesn't support using the no-code functionality to copy the user value from a custom field to the user value.

What you can do is use the "Edit Issue" action, then in the `More Options` section, paste in the following JSON:

{
  "fields": {
   "assignee": { "id": "{{issue.worker.accountId}}" }
  }
}

In the above snippet, replace "worker" with whatever the field name has the user value. In this case, the field you called "Users" in your screenshot is what I'm calling "Worker".

Your automation rule would look something similar to this:

Hope this helps! 

[Kelly Robinson]

Hi @Samuel  this looks like it could work. However, when I try to set the condition my field doesn't appear in the drop-down. Any ideas?

[Samuel]

Hello @Kelly Robinson can you send me a screenshot of what the dropdown is saying? What's the name of the field and the field type?

A workaround would be to use the Advanced JQL condition and put the field in there, but I'd like to figure out why your particular field is not appearing.