Change author of issue via automation

[Martin Molt]

Hi all,

I want to change the author of an issue based on jql via automation.

I'm extracting an email from the description via issue.description.substringBetween(). That works as it should. But I can't set the mail as the new author. Editing the author field is only possible as dropdown, so I can't fill in an email there. That's why I tried to do this via Advanced field editing using JSON. It works when filling another field with the email, but not the author field.

Is there any way I could do this?