Is there a way to add a watcher to a set of issues in batch?

[IDT Telecom]

Is there a way to add a watcher to a set of issues in batch?

i.e. Select all issues for a certain project and add a specific watcher to all of them in one shot?

Thanks!

[Bob Swift (personal) · Accepted solution]

JIRA Command Line Interface has an addWatchers action. That can be use with the runFromSql action to select issues and add one or more user ids as watchers.

[IDT Telecom]

Thanks so much Bob - I'll try it out!

[IDT Telecom]

Bob, the doc shows:

jira --action addWatchers   --issue "ZJIRACLI-2"    --userId "user, developer"  

Does this mean I have to issue this CLI for each issue, or can I put in a "macro" to add the watcher to multiple issues in one shot?

Something like:

jira --action addWatchers   --issue "ZJIRACLI-*"    --userId "user, developer"  

(note the splat)

[Bob Swift (personal)]

No, just one at a time. However, use runFromSql to issue the command for each issue selected by your SQL - assuming you have access to the jira database. You will need your database specific access information, but it would be something like:

jira --action runFromSql --common "--action addWatchers --userId user1,user2" --sql "select pkey as "issue" from jiraissue where pkey like 'XXX-%'" --database jira --driver postgresql --dbUser admin --dbPassword admin --host dbserver

Of course you should be careful and test this on a couple of issues first and/or use --simulate

[IDT Telecom]

Again, thanks so much for your swift and helpful responses.

[boardtc]

We need this to be added to the bulk edit UI. Duplicated by https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/24497/can-add-watchers-in-bulk

[Paul Douglas]

Is there a way of doing this in the UI?