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Is there an alternative to burningcode's now defunct Jira Watchers Custom Field plugin?

Ken Wood

I searched, if answer is there I missed it. I followed the tag for the plugin, it the answer is there I missed it.

Is there an alternative to burningcode's now defunct Jira Watcher Custom Field plugin?

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John Stoffel_pg4za2

I'm in the same boat, and wondering the same thing. It's been working with version 8.5.x for a while, but I need to upgrade to 8.13.10 now.

Ken, are you running Jira v8.13.x and is the plugin still working for you there?

John Stoffel_pg4za2

We bit the bullet and upgraded anyway, and it's working. At least as far as I can tell.

David Mahoney

When we upgraded to 8.13 in 2021Q1, it was still on the supported list. I would have noticed otherwise. I just discovered it was dropped 10 minutes ago when I was trying to find a link to docs for a user!

John Stoffel

Blech. I just upgraded to 8.13.13 this morning... didn't notice anything. I suspect it will have to be disabled for the next big upgrade process.

Pam Weber_xniu9z

We moved to 8.20.6 (LTS) and it did not break there. Looking at all the other comments, it appears to first break on 8:21.

Harald Pfitzner

Is it possible to get the fixed version 2.8.5 as 2.8.6 over Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager?
When not, please send me also the fixed 2.8.5.

Regards Harald

ChristopherChilds

Has anyone been able to test this against Version yet?

Matis Aas_ho2vhh

It wont magically start working on newer versions, the changes were made by Atlassian development team and it's very unlikely they are going to revert to an old constructor.

Diego Cañete

Hi Matis,

If I understand correctly, you say that the version
is jiracomponentwatcher 2.4 working fine on Jira Sever 9.1?

Matis Aas_ho2vhh

Hi Diego,

No, the opposite, it should not work on any newer Jira versions..

Andrea Hakim

This is a post-function scriptrunner script that works if you have a static user to add as a watcher. Place script after the "Creates the issue originally" post function on the create transition.

 com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.watchers.WatcherManager

import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser

import com.atlassian.jira.user.util.UserManager

&nbsp; 

def watcherManager = ComponentAccessor.getWatcherManager()

def userManager = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager()

def user = userManager.getUserByName("ComplianceSolutions@covius.com")<span>&nbsp;</span>as ApplicationUser


log.info("User"+user.toString())

log.info<span>&nbsp;</span>"Issue"+issue.toString()


watcherManager.startWatching(user, issue)import

David Yu

This would be the ideal solution except for cases where Issue Security Levels is being used with watchers. In that case, you'd want watchers to sync with that field when changes are made. I guess there would need to be a global Script Listener that updates the user field with changes to watchers.

Sonya S_

additional question, does anyone knows where "Component watcher" stored in database?

appreciate,

Sonya

Paul Clark _Redmoon Software_

Hi, if anyone is still looking I have an App called Watch It that allows you to watch components in a project and to add watchers during issue creation. It is available on Jira server, data center and cloud.

You can check it out at: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213851/watch-it-for-jira

Regards

Paul

Andrejs Kostenko

Anybody can help with that issue?
I'm at version jira server 8.20.4. Need upgrade it until latest version. But no success with JIRA Watchers field and Watchers Component, Alo I use Security level that has custom watchiers field.

How is possible to upgrade jira server from 8.20.4 till latest version and watchers field and component watchers able to work?

could somebody share the the "fix" OR the give a steps to do it ourself?

thank you in advance.

Sami Ahmed Shaik

@David Yu

Could you please share with us fixed version of "Jira Watcher Field" compatible with v8.22.x ?

Unfortunately, this add-on is causing chaos in our upgraded test instance.

Regards,

Sami S.

David Yu

@Sami Ahmed Shaik what version are you currently using?

Sami Ahmed Shaik

@David Yu Thanks for the response,

We are currently using Jira Server v8.22.6 & Jira Watcher Field v2.8.5

Regards,

Sami S.

David Yu

Sami, you are welcome to test my patched 2.8.5.2 version against 8.22.6 at your own risk.

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

Any plans around 9.4 version ?

Jyoti Verma

This is causing issues for me in 9.4.7 - I have downloaded Version:

2.8.5

Please suggest if anyone has any clue - my issues are not opening JIRA Watcher Field Plugin is enabled -

Caused by: io.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'com.burningcode.jira.issue.customfields.impl.WatcherFieldType': Bean instantiation via constructor failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.burningcode.jira.issue.customfields.impl.WatcherFieldType]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'void com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.MultiUserCFType.<init>(com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.persistence.CustomFieldValuePersister, com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.manager.GenericConfigManager, com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.converters.MultiUserConverter, com.atlassian.jira.config.properties.ApplicationProperties, com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraAuthenticationContext, com.atlassian.jira.bc.user.search.UserSearchService, com.atlassian.jira.web.FieldVisibilityManager, com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.rest.json.beans.JiraBaseUrls, com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.rest.json.UserBeanFactory, com.atlassian.jira.security.groups.GroupManager, com.atlassian.jira.security.roles.ProjectRoleManager, com.atlassian.jira.template.soy.SoyTemplateRendererProvider, com.atlassian.jira.user.UserFilterManager, com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.config.manager.FieldConfigSchemeManager, com.atlassian.jira.project.ProjectManager)'

Jyoti Verma

Hi @David Yu

I downloaded 2.8.5.2 from https://bitbucket.org/superoni/jira-watcher-field-plugin/downloads/ - it worked for me on 9.4.7 perfectly.

Thanks a lot

Varun Joseph Allu

Hi @David Yu ,

Do we have a Jira watcher plugin compatible with jira 10.3.3 ?

Please share if you have that , we recently upgraded from 9.4.2 to 10.3.3.

Thank you,

Varun

David Yu

I have one in the Downloads area you can test out. Let us know if you encounter any problems. You should take this chance to plan a migration to something better supported; I don't know how long I can keep duct-taping this thing together.

Paul Clark _Redmoon Software_

In case anyone is interested, we have an app called Watch It that allows you to add a Watchers field to the create issue page. The app has very similar functionality as the Jira Watcher plugin for the data center app and a smaller subset of the functionality for the cloud version. This is a paid for app and available for Jira data center 8.4.0 onwards

More details can be found here

Regards
Paul

David Yu

Paul, I looked at your add-on but I don't think it does the same thing. Distilling it down, I would need a real field that contains watchers so it can be used in places such as Issue Security Schemes. And the ability to add watchers bypassing Jira's normal security checks that prevent you from adding watchers if that watcher currently doesn't have access to see the ticket.

Dieter Guthmann

In Jira 9.13 was a _Dark Feature_ included, which allows to fill out the watcher field, while creating a new issue:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-9-13-x-release-notes-1319569020.html#JiraSoftware9.13.xreleasenotes-add-watchers

You have to enable com.atlassian.jira.initialwatchers.enabled in <BASE_URL>/secure/admin/SiteDarkFeatures!default.jspa

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