Is it possible to search for issues watched by someone?

[LaBulle22]

Hi, in my company, with JQL, I can search for issues I'm watching or I'm not watching but I cannot search for issues watched (or not) by a given person. Is that a Jira feature or simply a local policy?

[bruno robin]

N/A

[Valerie Knapp]

Hi @LaBulle22 , thanks for your post.

If you a plugin to impersonate another user, you could use that to see what issues another user is watching.

For example, something like this https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211740/user-switcher-for-jira 

Here Andy has also suggested some other options - https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/how-to-impersonate-as-user/qaq-p/712022 

What are you trying to achieve with this?

Best wishes

[bruno robin]

Hi Valerie, thanks for your answer. I'm a standard user (I mean w/o any admin rights), so I cannot try impersonation technic. Since the time I asked my question, I've successfully tested a JQL containing a condition based on watcher in another project, so that should work if configuration allows for it. Unfortunately I cannot access the configuration of the project where my JQL request is failing, so I'm waiting for someone who's access to give me the answer...