Importing Worklog Author

[Alex Chunilal]

I am importing worklogs via the JSON import using the below format as an example. However, no mater what I put in the author section, it always imports as anonymous. I have tried the user name and I have tried the email address, both give the same issue. Whats the correct thing to put 

"worklogs": [
        {
            "author": "abcde-12345-fedcba",
            "comment": "Worklog",
            "startDate": "2012-08-31T17:59:02.161+0100",
            "timeSpent": "PT1M"
        },
        {
            "author": "abcde-12345-fedcba",
            "startDate": "2012-08-31T17:59:02.161+0100",
            "timeSpent": "PT3H"
        }
    ]

Thanks In advance

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello Ales,

I would expect that the user login should work. Are you specifying users that connect to  valid/licensed users in your system who have appropriate permissions to log time against the issue?

[Alex Chunilal]

I tried the user name and email address. The user is actualy an administrator in jira and  can enter the worklogs manually

[Alex Chunilal]

Hi Trudy,

I got it to work by making the author, the unique ID for the user. I got the Unique ID from the URL when I go into the profile for the user