Can add watchers in Bulk?

[Nazia Tarannum]

hi

Can we add watchers in bulk?

Please advise

Thanks

Nazia

[Bob Swift (personal)]

JIRA Command Line Interface has an addWatchers action. That can be used in a script or via runFromSql or runFromCsv to do bulk actions.

[Haddon Fisher]

Are there any options for OnDemand users? It looks like the plugins and work-arounds for this require self-hosted.

[Bob Swift (personal)]

JIRA CLI works with OnDemand.

[Haddon Fisher]

Oh perfect thanks! BTW the atlassian marketplace entry for the CLI says it's not available for OD.

[Bob Swift (personal)]

Yes and that is just an annoying "feature" of Marketplace until they fix it.

[boardtc]

It would be nice to add an option to the bulk edit to *append* watchers. Duplicate of https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/18488/is-there-a-way-to-add-a-watcher-to-a-set-of-issues-in-batch

[Nikhil Naoghare]

Nazia, yes we can add multiple watchers at a time using the plugins. For this, you need to get the users from some external source such as property files or something else. You may use the following lines:

{   
WatcherManager watcherManager = getWatcherManager();
      com.opensymphony.user.User user1 = UserUtils.getUser("username1");
      com.opensymphony.user.User user2 = UserUtils.getUser("username2");
              
      if(!watcherManager.isWatching(user2, mutableIssue.getGenericValue()))
      {
            watcherManager.startWatching(user2, issue.getGenericValue());
            watcherManager.startWatching(user1, issue.getGenericValue());
      }

}

Where issue is the object of mutable issue.

Regards, Nikhil.