Add 'Creator' field to 'People' drop down as well as 'Reporter'/'Assignee'

[noah_davey]

Hey Guys,

Just wondering if there is a way to add the 'Creator' of an issue to the 'People' tab for tickets in Jira.

Have done some googling on this issue and most people suggest work around solutions like creating custom fields and using post functions to fill in the correct info (https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Reporter-and-creator-is-different/qaq-p/277555).

We can see there is the 'creator' listed in Activity > History at the bottom, so we were wondering if there was a more direct solution to adding this field to the people section

Cheers

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

You can not add the creator field to the people panel. Only the reporter field.

[Steven F Behnke]

The only ways are not out-of-the-box and require custom SOMETHING.

* Modify the Jira source code and deploy what you need to to make it work. It may be possible to extract the right templates and make this work, but probably requires a great deal of knowledge.

* Create a plugin Custom Field yourself. It just needs to return "issue.getCreator().getDisplayName()" at the end of the day, but you'd need to write up all the boilerplate to get it there.

* Create a Scripted Field using Adaptavist Scriptrunner, a Calculated Field using Innovalog's Misc Custom Fields, or a Live Field using CPrime's Power Scripts, Elements Connects fields by Elements, whatever ya got can do this if you have any scripting plugins.

* Create a Custom Field of some type and use Workflow Automation with any post-functions you have to copy the relevant value into your custom field.

There's just no way to do this out-of-the-box, but there's a million answers if you either can write your own plugin or have access to plugins that specifically offer this feature.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello Steven, your solutions are valid for Server and the tag for the question is Jira Cloud.

[Steven F Behnke]

Argh shoot you're right. Will update tyvm. 

[noah_davey]

Thanks for the help! Just trying to confirm there is no 'out of the box' way to do it as you say, much appreciated