Synchronize users TAGs in comments

Originally asked by Sam on 19 February 2021 (original question)


We have two JIRA servers that we synchronize between them, the users between the two JIRA are not the same, the users would like to tag user on other JIRA (they know their account names and email addresses), how can implement such sync.

I looked into this:

mergeComments—with custom formatting - Exalate Documentation - Exalate Documentation (idalko.com)

But not sure how to merge a comment in a way the notifies the tagged user by email as result of sync.


Answer by Sam on 01 March 2021

no one can help ? :sad:


Answer by Sam on 26 February 2021

Any one can help plz ?


Answer by Sam on 24 February 2021

Hello all,

any one can please give me a hint about this :smile:


We are also interested in a solution. Have you found one in the meantime?

Think about it this please:
If a user “majid” does not exist on your Jira system, how would you tag him there manually? Would that be possible? If the Jira API allowed that, you can do that via Exalate as well. AFAIK this would not be possible.

If you want to really think out of the box here, what you can do is type in the full email address of the person you want to tag, and Exalate transports that over to the destination. On the dest side, you can use regular expressions within the script to isolate the email address and find the user corresponding to that email - but its poor UX in my opinion.

Hope it helps!

Thanks

Hi @Ben

Can you please help me to answer few questions:

  1. which is your source system and which one target ?like is it Jira on-prime → Jira cloud ? or other combination ?
  2. In original question , it is mentioned that email address are known. But in your case what is the common thing ? like the email address can be same but not the domain or display name is same or any property which is identical in both the systems?

Thanks,
Sonal

Hi Sonal

We use exalate for a Jira cloud to Jira cloud integration.

The users involved are manageable with 3 to 6 users on each Jira system.

The user and email addresses are different on both systems (name.abc@customerX.com and name.def@customerY.com) but all users are known.

It would be great to find a solution for tagging users especially in the comments.

Thank you,

Ben

Hi @Ben

Thanks for the information , let me check if we can provide any kind of workaround or not?

Thanks,
Sonal