Is there a way to automatically remove a specific participant from new issues in Service Desk?

[Meg Holbrook]

My team runs a service desk separate from that of another department (Non-JIRA), but both are consistently CC'd on each other's requests from Users.

This creates a situation where our automated emails and notifications are creating additional tickets to that department when issues are moving through our system and being resolved.

Is there a way to automatically remove their account as a participant by email address or some other sort of filtering? We would still need to accept tickets from them as the reporter, which is the sticky part.

I do have to add that we are currently only running on Cloud, so our options are a bit limited.

Thanks for your time!

[James_Mclellan]

import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent
import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.DelegatingJiraIssueEvent
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.layout.field.FieldLayoutItem
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.layout.field.FieldLayoutManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager

def issue = event.getIssue()

// Get the list of participants
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
def fieldLayoutManager = ComponentAccessor.getFieldLayoutManager()
def requestField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjects(issue).find {((CustomField)it).name == "Request participants"}
def participants = issue.getCustomFieldValue(requestField)
def filteredParticipants = new ArrayList<ApplicationUser>()
if (participants != null) {
for (ApplicationUser participant in (ArrayList<ApplicationUser>)participants) {
if ( participant.getEmailAddress().toLowerCase() != "ADDRESS_I_WANT_TO_FILTER" )
{
filteredParticipants.add(participant)
}
}
}

MutableIssue editableIssue = (MutableIssue)issue
editableIssue.setCustomFieldValue(requestField, filteredParticipants)
Map<String, ModifiedValue> modifiedFields = editableIssue.getModifiedFields();
FieldLayoutItem fieldLayoutItem = fieldLayoutManager.getFieldLayout(editableIssue).getFieldLayoutItem(requestField);
DefaultIssueChangeHolder issueChangeHolder = new DefaultIssueChangeHolder();
final ModifiedValue modifiedValue = (ModifiedValue) modifiedFields.get(requestField.getId());
requestField.updateValue(fieldLayoutItem, issue, modifiedValue, issueChangeHolder);

[Carol Jones]

Thank you James, this is great!

[Andrew Pinson]

Where am I supposed to execute this code at?

[Andreas Lärkfeldt]

I've written a guide on how to fix the original issue (mentioned on top):
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management/Remove-quot-Request-Participants-quot-using-Automation-rule/qaq-p/460812#U1630417

No "add-ons" needed :P

I hope that helps! :)

[Dmitry Tyomkin]

Curious if Megan or someone else have firgured this one out? I'd like to remove all request participants in the ScriptRunner postfunction. Any advise would be appreciated.

[Meg Holbrook]

Hey Gerry,

Yes, we allow anyone to create a request via email. 

[Gerry Tan]

How do customer account get created in your JSD project? Do you allow anyone (even those without account) to create request via email?