Flashing first 6 characters into another field

[Ralf Franz]

I have two fields, author (contains email address) the other field is an individual field and should be filled with the first 6 characters of Author.
How can I do that.

[Scott Harwood]

Hi Ralf,

You can do this using:

Trigger: Field Value Changed (author)

Action: Edit Issue

* select your individual field from fields to set

* Add in {{issue.author.abbreviate(6)}} into the field. 

More about our text functions here:

https://docs.automationforjira.com/working-with-issue-data/working-with-strings.html#supported-functions

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Scott

[Ralf Franz]

Hi Scott

thanks for your Information.

Unfortunately, it does not work properly, as I thought.
I forgot to mention that this is a picklist.
You would have to go through this list to then compare the first part. So that the correct index is selected and worn.
Example:
Field Author ralffr@myname.com, the first 6 characters are ralffr. In the list is "ralffr Ralf Franz" anthalten, match the first 6 characters. All you have to do is select the right line.

I hope you can follow me. Do you have any idea?

Cheers

Ralf