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This function returns the Atlassian account Id for a given user name. In case, the given text is not a valid display name of a user, an empty text is returned. In case, multiple users have the same display name, the first one is returned.

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userAccountId(userName) #Output: Text

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%{userAccountId("Bob Smith")}

This example returns the Atlassian account Id of the user Bob Smith, e.g.:

557058:145e0983-5707-439c-80e4-1160dd57f142

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userName

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Text containing a valid user display name.

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This function returns a

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Variant for multiple users. In case, one of the given texts is not a valid display name of a user, an empty text is returned. In case, multiple users have the same display name for an element of the list, the first one is returned.

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userAccountId(userList) #Output: Text list

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%{userDisplayName(%{issue.watcher})}

This example returns the display names of all watchers.

To achieve this, the following functions are used:

toString()

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%{userDisplayName(["b.smith", "d.jones"]))

This example returns the display names of the two users, e.g.:

557058:145e0983-5707-439c-80e4-1160dd57f142, 5cb4ae0e4b97ab11a18e00c7

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userList

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Any valid text list containing user display names.

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This function returns a

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If you want to return the user name instead of a display name, check out: fullNameToUser()

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issue.reporter.displayName
//and
issue.watchers.map(u=>u.displayName)

Only possible to access it using an user field, but it is not possible to access to an user with an username, only with the account ID.

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Returns the full name of a given user.

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