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JSM Automation to change reporter to new customer e-mail address

Matthias Steffen
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July 20, 2025

Hi everyone,

in my overall support workflow requests are collected using an external service. The external service will then forward the requests to JSM via e-mail. The from e-mail address is always a technical e-mail adrress from the external service, not the customers e-mail address. The ticket created from the e-mail then has the technical e-mail address as reporter.

The message of the e-mail adheres to a structured schema and contains the customers e-mail address. I want to use an automation to extract the customers e-mail address and then change the reporter to this address. Extracting the e-mail already works as expected. However updating the reporter does not work as expected. I'm facing the following problems:

1. Specify a valid value for reporter (reporter)

If I try to update the reporter to the extracted e-mail address I get this error in the automation audit log. I suspected that the reason for the error is that no customer exists for the extracted e-mail address yet. Here is the exact configuration I'm using:
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Please note that the smart value {{customerEmailAddress}} contains the extracted e-mail address of the customer. I verified that the address is extracted correctly using the log action.

2. Sorry, self-signup is disabled for this help center. You need to be invited first.

I tried to use the 'Add service project customer' action to create a customer first. However this fails with the error mentioned above. I already ran through the steps shown from the following guide, but it did not fix the problem with the self-signups: https://support.atlassian.com/jira/kb/jsm-incoming-email-error-self-signup-disabled/

 

TL;DR: How can I change the reporter to the e-mail address extracted from the issue description?

 

Thanks for your help, I glad for every idea you might have.

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Andy Heinzer
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July 22, 2025

Hi @Matthias Steffen 

I am not certain that you can use smart values in automation in that manner.  Automation is limited by what is possible for a user to do in the site.   For JSM requests, the reporter might have to be a user that is already a member of the customer portal.  I have created a support case on your behalf over in https://getsupport.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/48/PCS-435822 so that our JSM support team can better assist you here.

Andy

Matthias Steffen
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July 23, 2025

Hi Andy, thank you very much for raising the issue with the JSM support team. 

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