Can I add watchers based on a custom field?

[Emily Spencer]

I have a custom field that lists different teams that would be affected by a new ticket. I'd like to set up the notifications so that when a specific team is chosen from the list, a certain set of watchers are automatically added to the ticket. Is this possible?

[Bhushan Nagaraj]

Hi Emily,

You can use the script runner plugin and WatcherManager to add watchers to the issue based on a custom field value

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.onresolve.jira.groovy.groovyrunner

http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/latest/com/atlassian/jira/issue/watchers/WatcherManager.html

[Bhushan Nagaraj]

Oops sorry didn't notice the OnDemand

[Kathleen Jacobs]

How would you do this on Download jira?

[Matheus Fernandes]

I'm not sure if you can use the Script Runner in OnDemand, but you should be able to add any user/group picker to the notification scheme - this way any user in the custom field will be notified for the events you configure.

[Emily Spencer]

Thank you both!

Matheus, I think that I follow you but let me know if I've misunderstood. If I do it that way with having a custom group picker field and then defining my watchers as specific groups, I believe that I lose the ability to limit what appears on the list. Won't the custom field dropdown display all of the existing groups?

I like to make this field available when creating all new tickets in a project so I'd prefer to keep it fairly restricted with what appears in the dropdown.

[Matheus Fernandes]

Won't the custom field dropdown display all of the existing groups?

I'm afraid that all groups will indeed be displayed in the Group Picker.

I've also tested using a post-function to copy the value of a custom field to Watchers, but with no luck. :/