Trigger workflow transition from GitHub - How to get user from GitHub to add as assignee

[Tilman Ulshoefer]

Dear everyone,

We use successfully the different triggers for branches and pull requests to trigger workflow transitions.

Now, we want to retrieve the user who created the branch/managed the pull request from GitHub to add them as assignee to the issue transitioned: Who knows how to set this up?

Kind regards, Tilman

[Guy Incognito · Accepted solution]

Hi @Tilman Ulshoefer,

I don't think you can get the "current user" in a post function, without using some add-on such as Jira Workflow Toolbox.

The update issue functionality provided by basic Jira is very limited, and would only allow you to assign a specific user, or use the "Automatic" value, which would default back to the project default assignee.

My suggestion is to install JWT add-on and then use the "Update or copy field values" post-function to set assignee = current user

Best regards

[Tilman Ulshoefer]

Thank you for your insights, @Guy Incognito