Automatically watch issues

[Esther Strom_ ACP-JA]

Is there a way I can automatically (or with one click) add myself to the watchers list for all tickets in a project where I'm the lead developer?

[Marcus Silveira · Accepted solution]

Hi Esther,

There's currently no way to add yourself as a watcher automatically to all these tickets.

What you can do is add yourself in the notification scheme for those projects so you'll be notified on any events you may want to.

Hope this helps,

Marcus

[Aleksey Endovskiy]

Hello!
Does it still work in current version of the JIRA Cloud?

[Khaled R]

In Jira cloud, go to the project settings, choose apps > Project automation, and create a new rule. Trigger: new issue is created. Action add (your user) as a watcher.

[Vinay Shekar S]

This can be achieved by adding custom script postfunction on "Create Issue" workflow transition.

Follow below steps:

1. Add a Post function

2. Select "Script Post-Function [ScriptRunner]"

3. Select "Custom script post-function"

4. Add below code

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import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue

def userName = "username" // name of the user
def userManager = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager()
MutableIssue issue = issue as MutableIssue
def user = userManager.getUserByName(userName)

def watcherManager = ComponentAccessor.getWatcherManager()

watcherManager.startWatching(user, issue)

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5. Don't forget to move this postfunction below "Creates the issue originally"

Prerequisites: ScriptRunner app from Atlassian MarketPlace

[Mohammed Davoodi]

Our organization has developed a plugin to do exactly this. You can automatically watch issues based on any JQL rules you specify. You can find the plugin here.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Agree with Marcus. A workaround would be to install the Watcher field plugin and do a bulk edit.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.burningcode.jira.issue.customfields.impl.jira-watcher-field

[Eric Mitchell]

Do you have any suggestions that would work for the ondemand version that isn't supported by this plugin?