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This function returns the display name for a given user name.

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userDisplayName(userName) #Output: Text
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userDisplayName(%{system.currentUser})
This example returns the display name of the current user, e.g.:
Bob Smith
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Parameters used in this function

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userName

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Text containing a valid user name.
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Variant for multiple users.

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userDisplayName(userList) #Output: Text list
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toString(userDisplayName(%{issue.watcher}))
This example returns the display names of all watchers.

To achieve this, the following functions are used:

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

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

Bob Smith, Dave Jones

To achieve this, the following functions are used:

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Parameters used in this function

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userList

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Any valid text list.
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If you want to return the user name instead of a display name, check out: fullNameToUser()


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Workaround

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issue.reporter.displayName
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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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