We have just had our first user leave the company who was an Assignee on a Smartsheet that has the Jira Connector, so I am learning a lesson. The hundreds of tickets he was an Assignee on are suddenly throwing the error listed in the subject. I have seen that the fix is to change the Connector to pull the Assignee Display Name into the sheet instead of the email address, but this really causes a problem for us. We have automations running that will email the Assignee of a Jira ticket when certain criteria is met, and we can't do that with a Display Name.
I need that column to contain email addresses, but not error out when the employee is no longer with us. We also cannot just unassign the Jira ticket, as we keep them assigned after they are closed for reporting purposes. We also cannot keep the user active in either system.
What are my options here? Has anyone else figured out a work around?