Automation: Get all users from the project and add as Watcher

Question

Good Day to all,

I'm currently tasked to do an automation wherein we should "gather" all users added to a certain project (project is only accessible if you're added by an admin). If a new user was added he/she could just be added on the list.

Automation setup:

1. Rule is triggered in multiple setup:

(set up this say so that, whenever a "new user" is added it he/she will also be "listed")
- Issue Created
- Issue Updated
- Issue Transitioned

2. JQL condition
- type = task and status != "done" or type = sub-task and status != "done"

3. Add "all users" as watchers

( how could I get all users on just this project?? )

Sample Scenario:
Members of the project:  Me (Admin), User A, User B

I create a new issue[Tkt-01] -  (me, User A, User B)  will be listed as watcher

I added a new user to the Project ~ User C

whenever I update/transition ticket - 
List of watchers should now be ( Me, User A, User B, User C ) - since user C has been added earlier

Fremie · Answer

Hi Mikael,

Thanks for replying. That could work. May I ask for a bit of an assistance on how could I do that? I'm looking at rest API as well but I have no idea how it works

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

Hi @Fremie,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

The way I would do it is using the web request action to get the members of a project role and then add the members as watchers to the issue. Automation doesn't have access to project settings, so using the REST API is the only way to go.