Automation to add watcher with condition (Component Lead)

[Dmitry Babenko]

Hi all!

The Project has components (components are sub-sections of a project). For each components there is a Component Lead.

I need to set up a rule in Automation. When new issue created with a component, the person responsible for the component should automatically be added as a Watchers.

Help me, please, set up a rule.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Dmitry Babenko -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

What have you tried thus far to solve this?  If you have a rule, please post images of your rule and the audit log details showing the rule execution.  Those will provide context for the community to offer suggestions.

If you have not started your rule yet...To get you started on creating your rule, please review this documentation and examples:

• https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/expand-jira/automation
• https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-issues/
• https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/automation-template-library

And here is some additional information to help you create your rule...

• I checked and the component lead information does not appear to be available to an issue within an automation rule
• This means your rule will need to use the component assigned to the issue to then call the REST API from the rule using a webrequest, and that will provide the lead user's accountId to add as a watcher.  Below are some references to help implement that:
• REST API to get the component information: https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/1000.824.0/#api/2/component-getComponent
• How to call the REST API from a rule: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Automation-for-Jira-Send-web-request-using-Jira-REST-API/ba-p/1443828

Kind regards,
Bill

[Dmitry Babenko]

Unfortunately your links didn't help. Maybe I'm bad at reading. I can't figure out how to set up condition Component Lead to automatically be added as a Watchers

Should I use issue.components.lead in condition somehow?

The condition is very simple.
If there is a component in issue, then the Component Lead must be a Watchers.

[Bill Sheboy]

Which of the linked information that I provided did not help?

No, as I noted you cannot reference the Component details from the issue.

Instead please try the work-around that I noted to use the Component id value to call the REST API, obtain the lead information, and use that to add the Watcher.