Log the Manual Trigger user in Automation for Jira

[Matt Sywulak]

Hey all I know you can log events in Automation for Jira using the smart values but I was wondering if there was a way to log the user who hit the manual trigger button? I know you can limit it to individual groups but I would like to log the user doing that action since all the actions only show "Automation for Jira" updating the issue based on manual trigger. 

[Dirk Ronsmans · Accepted solution]

Hi @Matt Sywulak ,

As far as i know and can see i don't see any out of the box method for seeing who activated the trigger in the audit log or activity history.

According to the documentation you should be able to run the rule as "the user who triggered the rule" but I don't seem to be able to change that.

Another workarround could be to set another edit issue action and have it write a custom logmessage in a comment with the name of the actual user (smart value)?

[Matt Sywulak]

Yeah I think for the cloud you can only use the "Automation app user" as the trigger user as I cannot change that either. 

And that would be essentially the same thing, I think, I just don't know of a smart value that tracks the user who clicked the button. Unless I'm missing something simple.

[Dirk Ronsmans]

Well it seems there is a very specific smart value for this!

{{initiator}}

The user who triggered the rule.

{{initiator.displayName}}

Best tho to use {{initiator.displayName}} otherwise you'll just see the internal id which means pretty much nothing :)

By adding this on a comment with some pretext.. you could have a simple log in your comments

[Matt Sywulak]

Awesome, that worked - thank you!