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[Jesse Mrozowski]

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[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jesse Mrozowski,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

You could do this via automation by parsing out the comment from the project lead and then use web requests to get the Atlassian Id of the user that should be the assignee. 

[Jesse Mrozowski]

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[Mikael Sandberg]

Something like this would do it:

Note that this assumes that the reply would look something like this:

Assignee: Mikael

You could of course use a different format, just note that the web request to get the user and the Atlassian Id can only query on displayName or emailAddress. When I use that end point I always search on emailAddress since you could have multiple users with the same displayName.