How do I show the user that triggered an automation?

[Joe Kemp]

Using automation, I want to send a notification that a change to an issue has occurred. The payload for the notification should contain the issue key, URL, summary, toString, and fromString which are working well. The only piece of information I can't seem to get in the notification is the user that triggered the automation in the first place.

I tried {{fieldChange.author}} and variations of {{issue.changelog.histories.last.arthor.displayName}}

Any help would be appreciated.

[Gökçe Gürsel {Appfire} · Accepted solution]

Hi Joe,

Did you try {{initiator.displayName}}?

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-users/

[Joe Kemp]

This worked like a charm. Thank you so much for your help! I know I looked at all those pages at least 20 times so I don't know how I missed it.