How do I find a user's account ID?

[Cole, David J]

I'm looking to add a fairly simple string in my JQL to say participants= "John Doe". I can't find the account_id of the user and I can't put in their email because JIRA tells me that "@" is a reserved function. When I start typing the user's name, nothing comes up to allow me to pick from a list of users either. 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Cole, David J 

Search for the user through the Teams menu.

When you find the user and open their record the account ID will appear in the URL. In this image I have partially hidden the value with the yellow block.

[Cole, David J]

That worked. Thank you!