How to automatically subscribe as a watcher for all current and new stories in a JIRA project?

[mjaglan]

Here a project is at -

https://qualtrics.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/<PROJECT_NAME>

I can go to an individual story in a project and add myself as a watcher but that's a tedious work. Instead, is there a way to automatically subscribe as a watcher for a specific JIRA project workspace (for all current and new stories in it)?

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi @mjaglan  - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Yes, you can run a query using JQL (i.e. a filter) and then do a Bulk change to add yourself as a Watcher to every issue returned by the query. 

Then you can create an Automation Rule for an Issue Created trigger that sets you as the Watcher for all new ones. 

[mjaglan]

This worked after I added myself as Project Admin so that I can access Project Settings > Automation.

[John Funk]

Great!