Create a user and find a user

Create User

To create a user in Jira make an Action that

Method: POST URL: {{baseUrl}}/rest/api/2/user

Body:

{
    "name": "charlie",
    "password": "abracadabra",
    "emailAddress": "charlie@atlassian.com",
    "displayName": "Charlie of Atlassian",
    "applicationKeys": [
        "jira-core"
    ]
}

Response:

{
    "self": "http://www.example.com/jirahttp://www.example.com/jira/rest/api/2/user/charlie",
    "key": "charlie",
    "name": "charlie",
    "emailAddress": "charlie@atlassian.com",
    "displayName": "Charlie of Atlassian"
}

Find user

Method: GET URL: {{baseUrl}}/rest/api/2/user/search?username={{userName}}&includeInactive

Returns a list of users, if exact match the list should be 1 item in the array.

Create a user and set that as reporter of a new issue

note indentation to visualise parent child of action levels. eg. 1,a,i

Action: Find user (use above GET request)
1. Action: Create User if not existing (use the create user example above)
  Click on the Triggers & Conditions tab and select Parent, add the
  JSON path: $[0]
  Operand: !~
  Value: name
  This will tell iHub to execute only if there is no name parameter in the response from the parent.
  1. Action: Create Issue after user creation
    in the body section add
    
    { "fields": { "project": { "id": "10000" }, "summary": "something's wrong", "issuetype": { "id": "10000" }, "assignee": { "name": "homer" }, "reporter": { "name": "{{name}}" } } }
    {{name}} variable comes from the parent response
2. Action: Create Issue if user exist
  b1) In the json path add a variable:
  Variable Name: name
  JOSN Path: $[0].name
  b2) Click on the Triggers & Conditions tab and select Parent, add the
  JSON path: $[0]
  Operand: ~
  Value: name
  in the body section add
  {{name}} variable comes from the parent response

Ref doc:

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/9.2.0/#api/2/user-findUsers