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How to auto-add watcher from the person at in the latest comment?

Craig

I comment a jira as follows:

hi @Lily @[deleted] it's a lovely day, isn't it?

I want to use jira automation to add lily and tom as the watchers, but don't know how to fulfill this. Could any guy help?

Thanks,

Craig

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Craig

Until that suggestion is implemented, you could built this functionality yourself using Automation for Jira. For example:

trigger: issue commented
action: create a variable, and use text functions and regular expressions to extract the mentioned users account id values
condition: advanced compare to check if there were any mentions
advanced branch: to iterate over the created variable as a list
- action: add watchers for each mentioned user

To learn more about automation rules, please see this documentation and examples:

Kind regards,
Bill

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Craig

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-21006

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Craig

Until that suggestion is implemented, you could built this functionality yourself using Automation for Jira. For example:

trigger: issue commented
action: create a variable, and use text functions and regular expressions to extract the mentioned users account id values
condition: advanced compare to check if there were any mentions
advanced branch: to iterate over the created variable as a list
- action: add watchers for each mentioned user

To learn more about automation rules, please see this documentation and examples:

Kind regards,
Bill

Kit Friend

Hey @Bill Sheboy - I'm a newbie to variable writing - do you have an example of what the action would look like here? We're trying to achieve the same thing

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Kit Friend

Here are more details on what I described to extract the account id values from the comments...

trigger: issue commented
action: create variable...
- name: varAddWatcher
- smart value:

{{issue.comments.last.body.replace("[~accountid"," [~accountid").split(" ").match("(accountid:.*)]").remove("accountid:")}}

advanced compare condition: check if {{varAddWatcher}} does not equal empty
advanced branch...
- smart value: {{varAddWatcher.split(",")}}
- variable name: varWatcher
  - action: manage watchers
    - add these watchers: {{varWatcher}}

Kind regards,
Bill

UPDATED 2023-Feb-06: I updated the expression for varAddWatcher to split on spaces before searching for the accountId values.

UPDATED 2023-Jun-15: In the unlikely case there is no leading space between mentions, I updated the smart value expression to add a space before mentions and then split on them.

Kit Friend

Thanks @Bill Sheboy really kind of you!

Kit Friend

@Bill Sheboy have you had this working successfully for multiple users being tagged? It's working fine for me on single users, but errors when there's more than one. I'm wondering if it's to do with the initial variable creation action only creating the first one as a smart value...

Omri Zeman

Hey @Bill Sheboy Im using this code now:
{{issue.comments.last.body.split(" ").match("(accountid:.*)]").remove("accountid:")}}

and when I tag multiple users its doesn't make them watcher, only when I tag only one.
do you know what i need to change in the code or in the automation that it will fix it?

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Omri Zeman

Please see my response to your own question on this scenario as it requires using an advanced branch:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Re-Auto-Add-Watchers-When-Mentioned-in-the-comment-problem/qaq-p/2908107/comment-id/1078651#M1078651

Kind regards,
Bill

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