Automate assignment of Reporter from one ticket as a Watcher in a new ticket

[Jeff Kirkpatrick]

I have tickets in a Service Management project (Project 1) that, depending on status, will auto-create a new ticket in a Jira Software project (Project 2), and carry over certain values from the original ticket. 

I want to take the Reporter from the Project 1 ticket and add them as a Watcher on the Project 2 ticket, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do this.  Any suggestions?

"Current Issue" below is from Project 1.

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jeff Kirkpatrick,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Because you are already using the branch component your only option to add the watcher to the new issue would be to use a web request to a second rule that sets the watcher and you can include reporter as part of the request body. 

[Jeff Kirkpatrick]

Thanks @Mikael Sandberg - that's a little outside of my knowledge/experience level, but based on your answer it sounds like if I didn't already have branches in this rule I would be able to use branches to accomplish my desired use case...?  May you share with me your suggestion on how I could accomplish this if my current rule didn't already have branches in it?

Thank you for your help!

[Mikael Sandberg]

If you didn't already have a branch, then it would look something like this:

[Jeff Kirkpatrick]

@Mikael Sandberg this is awesome thanks!  I will split the current rule into two separate ones (negating the current branch need) and then I'll incorporate your recommendation.  Thanks again!