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User search

Find users assignable to issues

Returns a list of users that can be assigned to an issue. Use this operation to find the list of users who can be assigned to:

  • a new issue, by providing the projectKeyOrId.
  • an updated issue, by providing the issueKey or issueId.
  • to an issue during a transition (workflow action), by providing the issueKey or issueId and the transition id in actionDescriptorId. You can obtain the IDs of an issue's valid transitions using the transitions option in the expand parameter of Get issue.

In all these cases, you can pass an account ID to determine if a user can be assigned to an issue. The user is returned in the response if they can be assigned to the issue or issue transition.

This operation takes the users in the range defined by startAt and maxResults, up to the thousandth user, and then returns only the users from that range that can be assigned the issue. This means the operation usually returns fewer users than specified in maxResults. To get all the users who can be assigned the issue, use Get all users and filter the records in your code.

Privacy controls are applied to the response based on the users' preferences. This could mean, for example, that the user's email address is hidden. See the Profile visibility overview for more details.

Permissions required: Browse users and groups global permission or Assign issues project permission

get/rest/api/3/user/assignable/search

Query parameters

querystring
Example:query

A query string that is matched against user attributes, such as displayName, and emailAddress, to find relevant users. The string can match the prefix of the attribute's value. For example, query=john matches a user with a displayName of John Smith and a user with an emailAddress of johnson@example.com. Required, unless username or accountId is specified.

sessionIdstring

The sessionId of this request. SessionId is the same until the assignee is set.

usernamestring

This parameter is no longer available. See the deprecation notice for details.

accountIdstring

A query string that is matched exactly against user accountId. Required, unless query is specified.

projectstring

The project ID or project key (case sensitive). Required, unless issueKey or issueId is specified.

issueKeystring

The key of the issue. Required, unless issueId or project is specified.

issueIdstring

The ID of the issue. Required, unless issueKey or project is specified.

startAtinteger

The index of the first item to return in a page of results (page offset).

maxResultsinteger

The maximum number of items to return. This operation may return less than the maximum number of items even if more are available. The operation fetches users up to the maximum and then, from the fetched users, returns only the users that can be assigned to the issue.

actionDescriptorIdinteger

The ID of the transition.

recommendboolean
accountTypestring[]
appTypestring[]

Response

Returned if the request is successful.

accountIdstring

The account ID of the user, which uniquely identifies the user across all Atlassian products. For example, 5b10ac8d82e05b22cc7d4ef5. Required in requests.

accountType'atlassian' | 'app' | 'customer' | 'unknown'

The user account type. Can take the following values:

  • atlassian regular Atlassian user account
  • app system account used for Connect applications and OAuth to represent external systems
  • customer Jira Service Desk account representing an external service desk
activeboolean

Whether the user is active.

appTypestring

The app type of the user account when accountType is 'app'. Can take the following values:

  • service Service Account
  • agent Rovo Agent Account
  • unknown Unknown app type
displayNamestring

The display name of the user. Depending on the user’s privacy setting, this may return an alternative value.

emailAddressstring

The email address of the user. Depending on the user’s privacy setting, this may be returned as null.

expandstring

Expand options that include additional user details in the response.

guestboolean

Whether the user is a guest.

keystring

This property is no longer available and will be removed from the documentation soon. See the deprecation notice for details.

localestring

The locale of the user. Depending on the user’s privacy setting, this may be returned as null.

namestring

This property is no longer available and will be removed from the documentation soon. See the deprecation notice for details.

selfstring uri

The URL of the user.

timeZonestring

The time zone specified in the user's profile. If the user's time zone is not visible to the current user (due to user's profile setting), or if a time zone has not been set, the instance's default time zone will be returned.