First comment author

This template displays the display name of the author of the first comment posted in the current work item.

If there is nothing to display, the result will be “None”.

Configuration

To use the First comment author template, simply select it from the template grid. Filter by Comment to find it faster.

Parameters

This template does not require any additional parameter configuration.

Expert mode

If you switch to Expert mode you can see the Smart field in the Expression Parser. You can now tweak the expression to create a custom smart field based on this template.

Expression

Jira expression:

CODE

issue?.comments[0]?.author?.displayName