It looks like in Jira, you have to add yourself as a Watcher on a ticket or you become a watcher if you were an Assignee (I think?). Would it be possible to automatically set anyone who is listed in the People section as a Watcher?
Thanks in advance.
Charlie.
Hello @Charlie Banks
Welcome to the Atlassian community!
Do I understand correctly that you want to make all the people who have been granted access to the project Watchers on every issue created in that project?
What problem are you trying to solve by doing this?
Hi Charlie,
i dont think that you can add automatically people as watcher but, you can try to create a new group add those people in this, and use a custom field multi picker users, or a group picker (maybe is better for your use); to make it automatically you have only use an automation to populate the custom field
Regards
Davide Cascapera
Thanks for responding. In the Jira ticket there is a people section that contains users working on the ticket (assignee, reporter, product owner, developer, tester) and I have a user that wants to know if everyone in that people section can be watchers automatically Vs just the reporter and the assignee.
Thanks, I apologize if its confusing.
Thank you for that clarification.
Are you working with Jira Cloud or Jira Server/Data Center? If your URL looks like this, then you are working with Jira Cloud:
https://<your company>.atlassian.net
There is a feature called Automation for Jira that could be used to make the users from additional User Picker fields Watchers on the issue. The capabilities of the feature differ depending on your hosting type (Cloud or Server/Data Center).
Automation for Jira Cloud: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/automate-your-jira-cloud-processes-and-workflows/
Automation for Jira Data Center: https://confluence.atlassian.com/automation/
Thanks we use Jira server 8.13.22.
Url is jira.companyname.com
We are moving to Jira cloud later in the year.
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