Automation - how to change reporter to user who triggered the action

[Deleted user]

Hi,

I would like to introduce an automation that would automatically change reporter of an issue when it is moved to a different project. The reporter should be changed to the user who triggered the event. I see that the option is there for assignee, however, not for reporter.

Is there any way this can be done?

Thank you,

Jiri

[andreas]

Hi Jiri,

You should be able to do this, but you'll need to use a smart-value to set the reporter to the user who initiated the move operation: 

{{initiator.name}}

Here's a rule that should work:

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Andreas

[Kumar Aniket]

I want to do a slight variation of this. I have set an automation rule to create linked issues when certain conditions are met for the trigger issue. I want the "Reporter" field of the newly created issue to be the same as the "Assignee" field of the issue that triggered the automation. How can I do this?

[Sara Schreiner]

Did you ever find an answer to this? I have the same question. 

[Nate Dickinson]

Thank you, This was super helpful. 

[Wesley Maffazzolli]

The solution that Andreas pointed out worked for me. However, it's curious though.

I had been trying to use the smart value {{initiator.displayName}} instead of {{initiator.name}} to set the reporter value, and I was facing error just as this one below: 

As you can see, I had an action log on the first line that was giving the {{initiator.displayName}} as expected, but when I used the same smart-value to set the reporter field value I was getting an error (last line).

Even though the problem was solved by simply using the name property instead of the displayName, I wonder why the displayName property didn't work for that.

Btw, thanks for the support Andreas!

[Danyal Iqbal]

no, not for the move operation.