Automatically Assignee must be added to watchers

[Project A]

We always used to change the assignee's on the issue based on the Status.

I want all my previous assignee's to be added as Watchers.

I have Automation for JIRA and MISC workflow addons

Thanks in Advance

Jagan

[Tansu Akdeniz · Accepted solution]

Hi @Project A ,

Welcome to community.

You can do it via Automation plugin. Here it is;

• Go to related project -> project settings -> project automation and than create rule.

So that, when assignee is changed, it will be automatically added as watcher.

Tansu

[Project A]

Thanks for your valid Answer @Tansu Akdeniz 

[Tansu Akdeniz]

You are welcome.

[Jenn Muir]

It doesn't appear that this works for Jira Service Desk.  Is there another option?

[Andy Creech]

Ditto here for Service Desk.

I have implemented a automation rule to add users to a custom user pick list field and then on transition, copy that customer field to watcher. This solves the issue created watcher list, but it does not solve how to add watchers based on when an issue is edited to meet certain criteria. 

[Jenn Muir]

Thanks for the info. I've implemented the same