How to get the Jira Smart Value for the name of the individual who transitioned an issue

[Maggie Rivard]

I am trying to add logging info into a custom field on my issues in Jira Software.

I want to track who transitions an issue, when they transitioned the issue, and any comments they added to the issue in a custom field.

Using automation (trigger is the transitioning of an issue) I want a custom field to populate the name of the individual who transitioned the issue, the date it was transitioned, and any comments that were added by that user.

I am still pretty new to Jira so any help would be appreciated, thank you!

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi Maggie,

The smart value that you are looking for is {{initiator.displayName}}, that will give you the name of the use that triggered the automation.

[Maggie Rivard]

@Mikael Sandberg 

Thank you so much. Do you know the Jira Smart Value for the date it was transitioned?

[Mikael Sandberg]

That would be {{issue.updated}}

[Maggie Rivard]

I was able to figure out the date: 

{{now.shortDate}} 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/automation/jira-smart-values-date-and-time-993924864.html

[Felix Puller]

Maggie can you explain how you stored the value in a custom field? so did you e.g. do sth like this with the audit log action in automation?

{{issue.customfield_10929}} = {{initiator.displayName}}

I want to store the username in a custom field but somehow this is not working.

[Troy]

Hi @Mikael Sandberg is there a way to capture just the first name of the user as {{initiator.displayName}} prints the full name?

[Mikael Sandberg]

@Troy This smart value should do it, {{initiator.displayName.split(" ").first}}

[Troy]

@Mikael Sandberg It most certainly did, thanks a lot :)