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Bug
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Resolution: Fixed
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Low (View bug fix roadmap)
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4.4.3, 4.4.4
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4.04
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If a username contains space(s) (Ie. JIRA Admin), then the activity stream on the User's Profile will not work properly
Steps to replicate:
- Create a user with spaces (Ie. JIRA Admin)
- Perform any actions on any issue (Ie. Start Progress, Resolved, and etc)
- The above action should be displayed on the Profile's Activitiy Stream, but it does not
- Either the Profile's Activity Stream shows no activity or
- Show another user activity with the same username's prefix (In this case, JIRA)
Note: The activity will show as normal on the activity stream's gadget.
[JRASERVER-26881] A username with space(s) cannot view his/her activity on the User's profile
Problem still exists on Jira Cloud.
Richard Herman
added a comment - Please let us know the status of this. Shows fixed but the problem still exists on the onDemand version
Richard Herman
added a comment - Please let us know the status of this. Shows fixed but the problem still exists on the onDemand version Passed QA Review OK, tested on branch, master and https://jira-stable-alacarte.jira-dev.com
Bram Luyten (@mire)
added a comment - It would be great to have this fixed. 
Evelin
added a comment - For us this is confusing, too. Some of us have two fields of work in JIRA - normally, we work as test engineers or project assistant, and additionally we take care of JIRA administration tasks. We use two different logins depending on the field we are currently working in. An example: For JIRA administration tasks, I use "evric (admin)". When I report a bug or feature request, I use "evric".
In our installation, not too many users are affected, and we can work around the bug by using the gadget, but it would be much better if the user profile was correct.
Evelin
added a comment - For us this is confusing, too. Some of us have two fields of work in JIRA - normally, we work as test engineers or project assistant, and additionally we take care of JIRA administration tasks. We use two different logins depending on the field we are currently working in. An example: For JIRA administration tasks, I use "evric (admin)". When I report a bug or feature request, I use "evric".
In our installation, not too many users are affected, and we can work around the bug by using the gadget, but it would be much better if the user profile was correct.
This affects all our users as we all have spaces in our usernames.
We noticed that the "is not" works.
G.
Gregory Sudderth
added a comment - - edited This affects all our users as we all have spaces in our usernames.
We noticed that the "is not" works.
G. Additionally, we've found that this bug can result in perceived data corruption, not just missing functionality.
To demonstrate this, create accounts "Abby Smith", "Abby White" and "Abby".
When browsing the profile of "Abby Smith" or "Abby White", you'll actually have the activity stream data of "Abby" rendered, confusing everyone involved.
A. Oberlander
added a comment - - edited Additionally, we've found that this bug can result in perceived data corruption, not just missing functionality.
To demonstrate this, create accounts "Abby Smith", "Abby White" and "Abby".
When browsing the profile of "Abby Smith" or "Abby White", you'll actually have the activity stream data of "Abby" rendered, confusing everyone involved.
This bug has a severe impact for jira-using projects which interact with metaverse virtual online world servers, such as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSimulator
http://aurora-sim.org/
https://secondlife.com/
http://www.osgrid.org/
https://www.avination.com/
http://inworldz.com/
http://3rdrockgrid.com/
These platforms uses the convention of "firstname lastname" for user accounts, and users naturally carry that convention over to related defect tracking accounts in JIRA.
As an example, The Phoenix Viewer Project (http://www.phoenixviewer.com/) virtual world client has ~400,000 unique weekly users. ~3,000 of these are active, registered JIRA users who created an account name in the format "firstname lastname". Since the upgrade to JIRA 4.3, these users now have blank activity streams.
The number of users involved, and the likelyhood of more signing up daily, makes the database rewrite workaround impractical.
The impact of this is that it's more difficult to keep track of what some of our JIRA power users are doing, simply by visiting their profile page as was formerly possible. Also, these users regularly notice and report that their JIRA activity stream display is broken, generating some support noise.
Thanks, and hope it's fixed,
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A. Oberlander
added a comment - - edited This bug has a severe impact for jira-using projects which interact with metaverse virtual online world servers, such as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSimulator
http://aurora-sim.org/
https://secondlife.com/
http://www.osgrid.org/
https://www.avination.com/
http://inworldz.com/
http://3rdrockgrid.com/
These platforms uses the convention of "firstname lastname" for user accounts, and users naturally carry that convention over to related defect tracking accounts in JIRA.
As an example, The Phoenix Viewer Project ( http://www.phoenixviewer.com/ ) virtual world client has ~400,000 unique weekly users. ~3,000 of these are active, registered JIRA users who created an account name in the format "firstname lastname". Since the upgrade to JIRA 4.3, these users now have blank activity streams.
The number of users involved, and the likelyhood of more signing up daily, makes the database rewrite workaround impractical.
The impact of this is that it's more difficult to keep track of what some of our JIRA power users are doing, simply by visiting their profile page as was formerly possible. Also, these users regularly notice and report that their JIRA activity stream display is broken, generating some support noise.
Thanks, and hope it's fixed,
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