display full user name with groovy

[SaidAslan]

good day. 

on the transition I have a screen with a custom single user picker "approver". in post-functions I display this user's name in a comment with some text. when this comment is displayed, the user "approver' is written as userkey like jsmith (not the full name). 

how can Groovy be used for converting a userkey to a full user name? 

and can it be changed within this custom field, without using additional cf? 

[JamieA]

com.atlassian.jira.user.util.UserManager#getUserByKey

[SaidAslan]

how may it be used? 

[Jonny Carter]

The getUserByKey method will return an ApplicationUser object. You can use that object's getDisplayName() method (or the Groovified .displayName property) to get their name.

[SaidAslan]

Sorry, but initially I just needed a script to convert a user key to full name to use it not only here but in other cases too

[SaidAslan]

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[JamieA]

You need to ask the authors of whatever plugin that comes from - not sure why you have used SR tags instead of theirs. Easy to do with SR though.

[SaidAslan]

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here it is a configuration, %{11021} is user picker cf, and it doesnt have a "cf Full name" property as the built-in user pickers have (reporter's full name, assignee's full name)

approver cf is on Screen, agent inserts value manually:

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[JamieA]

can you add a screenshot of the Add a Comment config? I'm not familiar with that... also not sure how you got the approver in there?

[SaidAslan]

Hi Jamie, 

I'm adding a comment with a standart post-function "Add a comment", not from a script. It is inserted as a string. As i understand there are no variants to format this value within this comment post-f, so I want to convert this name in a separate script or by more logical method, if it exists

[JamieA]

can you explain how it's appearing in the comment? Is the object you have a String (the user key), or an ApplicationUser object?