Where has 'Add Watchers' gone in the new JIRA view?

[Jason Lewis]

I want to be able to add my BA and Scrum master to watch tickets so they receive their email notification. 

Where has ADD WATCHERS gone?

[Renjith Pillai · Accepted solution]

Just continued what David said and wrote a small perl script for you - http://goo.gl/ogRtG

[Karie Kelly]

Thanks so much for that help! Really appreciate it!

[Ilya Ilba]

To remove everything from you watchlist, go to

https://your.jira.server/issues/?jql=key%20in%20watchedIssues()

This will show the list of all issues you are currently watching.

Then in the top right corner, press “…” button, choose “Bulk change all NNN issues”. On the next page, select all items in a table with a tick mark in the table header, press “Next” button, select “Stop Watching Issues”, press “Next”, press “Confirm”.

[David Chan]

Most likely you'd just have to remove all users from being watchers in tickets, as there isn't any way to determine if an user manually added themselves as a watcher vs. being automatically added.

To modify your watchers list you can probably do this via REST api:

• http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#id327436

My thoughts are basically to run a script:

• Get a listing of all issue keys
• with REST, run a GET call, per issue to list all users, followed by a DELETE