How do I star or favorite an issue?

[Sokhom Som _US_]

Can someone please explain how to star or favorite a JIRA issue?  I used to be able to do it in the old view and now in the new JIRA view I am unable to do so. 

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sokhom Som _US_  - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Take a look at this feature request:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-74384

[Sokhom Som _US_]

Thanks!  I added myself as a watcher.  

[Robin Foster]

As a work around until the feature correctly exists (again), you can create a simple search that only returns the one issue of interest and star that.

Or a better solution is to create a search called starred with all the individual issues you want to keep special track of and star that

e.g.: issue in (BUG-1,BUG-5,TASK-7)

[Jack Brickey]

You can't favorite an individual issue. You can favorite filters, dashboards. You can Watch an issue you are interested in and you can quickly view all Watched issues. You could add a label to issues you might be interested in (ugly IMO).

[Sokhom Som _US_]

You used to be able to favorite issues about 3 months ago.  I have a whole view of issues that I've favorited.  Did they just take this feature away entirely now?  

[Jack Brickey]

I am not aware of this capability. Could you share a screenshot that demonstrates?

[Sokhom Som _US_]

[Dave Mathijs]

@Sokhom Som _US_ That's not native in Jira though, is it?

[Jim]

It was - I have starred issues and cannot un-star them now. 

[Łukasz Szafirski _ Shiji]

Watcher filter is no go for me, I am assigned as a watcher to over 2000 issues.