Full name for user picker custom field

[Christian Schlaefcke]

Hi Fidel,

we are using the Send an email post function and wonder if it would be possible to resolve the full names of users selected in a multi or single select user picker custom field like for the system user fields (e.g. assignee, reporter)?

Kind Regards,

Christian

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Hi Christian,

Yes, it can be done by previously using "Copy a parsed text to a field" post-function in order to store into an ephemeral string field the full names of the desired User Picker or Multi-User Picker custom field. Then you will be able to use the ephemeral string field in "Send an email" post-function.

This is an example:

Text to be parsed is:

• For User Picker custom fields:

userFullName(%{nnnnn})

• For Multi-User Picker custom fields:

toString(textOnStringList(toStringList(%{nnnnn}), userFullName(^%)))

replacing nnnnn with field code for User Picker or Multi-User Picker custom field.

If you are using personalized sending mode in "Send an email" post-function, you should use "Ephemeral string 1" or Ephemeral string 2", since the rest of ephemeral string fields are overwritten.

[Christian Schlaefcke]

This works almost perfect - Thank you!

One further question regarding the output of the Multi-User Picker. When we have multiple persons selected - e.g. Tom Miller and Mike Thompson the output would be: Output: Miller, Tom, Thompson, Mike

Would it be possible to tweak this to use another separator (e.g. ";" or "/")? Fancy would be if it we can put the result in a bullig list...

[Christian Schlaefcke]

And one other thing came up as well, but this might be a new issue if you like: Is it possible to render wiki text from the issues description in the body of the mail sent by the Send an email post-function?

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Do you want to create an html list using <ul> <li> tags?

Converting wiki to html might be possible, but very difficult to implement using text format functions. I will study the feasibility of adding a special format function to do it.

[Christian Schlaefcke]

yes - <ul> <li> would be great!

Thank you for investigating the wiki to html rendering!

[Fidel Castro Armario]

In order to get a <ul><li> html list from a Multi-User Picker custom field, use "Copy a parsed text to a field" post-function in advanced parsing mode with the following text expression:

"<ul>" + replaceAll(toString(textOnStringList(toStringList(%{nnnnn}), "<li>" + userFullName(^%) + "</li>")), ">,", ">") + "</ul>"

replacing nnnnn with field code for the Multi-User Picker field.

[Fidel Castro Armario]

I close the issue. Please, reopen it if solution provided doesn't meet your needs.

[Chau]

Hi Fidel, I have the same need as Christain's question above and it doens't seem to work. So I use MutilUser field and I want to display the name of the user as the HTML body of the email.

In HTML body, I try: toString(textOnStringList(toStringList(%{11903}), userFullName(^%))) I also try: "%{11903}, and it gives out user's logon ID: cn10291, gd12312 I'm looking for user display name, like: Chris Nor, Gary Dan.

[Chau]

Nevermind, I combine this with another thread that you post and I have it working. https://bitbucket.org/fcarmario/jira-workflow-toolbox/issues/306/use-users-full-name-in-e-mail-body

Thx