Our use case is (and I think we aren't the only ones):
- under certain circumstances a user needs to select a responsible person to approve or to make any decision
- in our use case this is going to happen as part of a form provided by ProForma due to conditional input
- thankfully we can pull Assets data such as employees via API to proForma however we cannot make further use of it
- an approver selected in ProForma is supposed to be added to "Approver" Jira field to grant permission for approval as part of the Jira workflow
- also this user needs to be emailed about the most recent approval request
How can we "sell" Jira Service Management as a nice tool to hundreds of colleagues if we need manual workarounds for such simple features?
We also need to train the users for additional tasks such as for those workarounds and we know, any manual effort of that kind may be a source of accidental errors done by human beings. Why not preventing this?
According to Atlassian support it is currently not possible to store Assets data pulled to and used in ProForma into any classic Jira field for any further use. If there's no (sustainable) way we'd appreciate to get this ability. Very soon. Please!
Don't want to shatter your optimism but first feature request tickets are "proper grown ups" nowadays.