Why Jira's worklogAuthor JQL returns nothing for Tempo Timesheets users
A commonly used Jira JQL filter — worklogAuthor = currentUser() — returns no results for users who log time via Tempo Timesheets, even after a full week of entries. This happens because Tempo stores worklogs in its own database and syncs only an anonymised 'shadow' copy to Jira, attributed to Tempo's app account rather than the individual user. Tempo has intentionally designed this behaviour since at least 2018 to enforce its own worklog visibility rules, which Jira's native display cannot accommodate. As a result, any tool that reads Jira's worklog data — including JQL queries, Jira Automation, REST API exports, and BI integrations — cannot identify the actual author of time entries logged through Tempo. Teams needing accurate author attribution must query Tempo's own API directly instead of relying on Jira's worklog records.
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