How to automatically add watchers when you have the bug watcher notification plugin installed

Pat Noack

I am trying to automatically add watchers to certain issue types in a project on creation.  Although the bug watcher plugin allows for a filter that would do this I can't enforce that users will create these filters.  Thus I would like a script to do this at creation.

Adaptavist helped with a plugin that would do this but the plugin keeps getting in the way after about 4 different iterations.

 

I am running JIRA 7.x and this script should have worked

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue

def watcherManager = ComponentAccessor.getWatcherManager()
def userManager = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager()
def users = ["admin", "anuser"] //user keys of users you want to start watching the issue
Issue issue = issue

users.each { userKey ->
    def userToWatch = userManager.getUserByKey(userKey)
    if (userToWatch)
        watcherManager.startWatching(userToWatch, issue)
    else 
        log.warn "User with key ${userKey} is  ot a valid user"
}

 

It was erroring out probably because of some hooks the issue watcher custom field from Bug watchers notification plugin was causing.

 

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can get around this?

 

TSD Group

Hi Pat!

We are using for your case two different plugins: JIRA Watcher Field and JIRA Suite Utilities. They both are free. First allows create a custom field of users type which is connected with Watchers. The second one allows automaticly update custom fields and also this field. So user is added to the watchers on creation transition in the workfow you want.