Jira automation: Copy names from a group to a variable

Question

I have a Jira group setup with 5 names. I would like to be able to collect those names and store them in a custom variable.

I would then use the smart value to add them to the watchers list and in the context of messages.

Is this possible?

I noticed that I am able to send an email to a Jira group natively, but I cannot add a group as watchers on an issue. I'm trying to work around this limitation.

Chris · Answer

and here the official Atlassian blog post: How to retrieve users from a specific group with s... - Atlassian Community

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

You could do this using the Send web request action to the REST endpoint for groups to get the members, and then add them to the field.