How to easily get userKey for user

[Hana Kučerová]

Hello Community,

please, is there some easy way for Jira administrator how to obtain userKey (~ JIRAUSER12345) for some specific user?

I'm aware, that I can get this information:

• using REST API
• looking into the database
• using some groovy script
• ...

But I wasn't able to find any straightforward way like get it from User management, click somewhere, use some URL. Am I missing something?

Thank you very much.

[Soumyadeep Mandal · Accepted solution]

Hi @Hana Kučerová ,

Have you checked this article https://blog.developer.atlassian.com/important-gdpr-changes-in-jira-server/

also, check https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-68189

[Hana Kučerová]

Hi @Soumyadeep Mandal ,

so, according to the issue JRASERVER-68189, there is no Jira's UI way.

Probably the easist way is to use REST API and URL:

• $JIRA_URL/rest/api/2/user?username=<User_Name>

Thank you for the confirmation, I thought I'm missing something.

[Agnes Kal]

Go to Script Console in ScriptRunner and type in Script:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor; 
ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByName("username"); 

Remember to change username

Click Run

The result is below

username(JIRAUSER01010) 

[Inayat Nahvi]

Hi @Agnes Kal , this works great.  How would I do the opposite?   I have JIRAUSER12345, and I want to show the display name?  Thanks.

[Rushan Makhmutov]

Almost the same:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor; 
ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByKey("JIRAUSER12345"); 

[Jeremy Cejka]

<JIRAURL>/jira/rest/api/2/user?key=JIRAUSERxxxx