Adding Reporter to Watchers

[Keith Gillis]

Hello,

I noticed recently that when users create an issue in one of my projects, they are not automatically added to the Watchers list. This does happen in the other projects in my Jira instance.

I finally figured out that because of the custom event that I created to notify users when specific issue types are created in the project, I had to change the fire event Post Function in the "Create" transition from "Issue Created" to my custom event. This has broken whatever used to auto-add the Reporter to the Watchers.

My question is, is there a way to make my custom event also auto-add the reporter to the Watchers? I tried changing my custom event from the "Generic Event" template to the "Issue Created" template, but that didn't seem to solve the issue. It also looks like I can't add multiple events to a Post Function.

I am using Jira Server, version 8.19.1.

Thanks for your help.

[Mirek]

Hi @Keith Gillis 

Maybe this can be helpful?

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-add-watchers-or-request-participants-during-issue-creation-1026039857.html