Exporting from Jira - name vs. ID

[Trixie Johnson]

When viewing filter results on Issue Search screen, Assigned PO displays as a name (last name, first name).  When this data is exported to a .CSV file, the data is the users ID (not the readable name).  Is there a way to request the name be exported?

[Ken Wells]

This may seem trivial, but my end users find this extremely frustrating, to the point that they'd rather not use Jira because it is so user UNfriendly. As an admin, I don't have any way to get at the Full Name instead of the user ID on their behalf. This seems like a simple thing that Atlassian could do to make the export better. Offer the name or the ID instead of forcing use of the ID.

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Trixie Johnson,

Gaston is right.

But you have one chance to do a 'post-export-data-manipulation':

With a script sending a 

GET /rest/api/2/user?username=<username>

for each CSV line. You can extract the "displayName" and replace with this the username(id).

So long

Thomas

[Trixie Johnson]

Sounds interesting but I would need more instruction.  :(  I get the concept, but not really how to execute.  Since the name I want is displayed on the screen, I was hoping there was just a way to 'tell' the export to pull that display name vs. the persons ID value.  Sounds like its not quite that easy, per se.

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Trixie Johnson,

yes, it is not easy. You need some scripting skills ore someone who writes the script for you.

What's your technical background?

So long

Thomas

[Gaston Valente]

Trixie,

I think there's no standard way, you need to look for a plugin or a script customer field of some sort.