W key shortcut for Watching an issue not working

Christina Sheehan February 13, 2025

Did this change? I am no longer able to quickly begin watching an issue with the W key anymore. 

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Laura Humphries
Contributor
February 13, 2025

Hey @Christina Sheehan ,

Have you turned off keyboard shortcuts?

You can use this link to which will show you how to check, as well as list the shortcuts available.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/use-keyboard-shortcuts/

 

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Dan Breyen
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February 13, 2025

Hi @Christina Sheehan in my instance, I'm still able to type 'w' on an open ticket in Jira and JSM and the w is either adding me or removing me as a watcher.  Have you by chance tried a different browser, rebooted your PC, flushed browser cache and/or removed cookies to see if it's still an issue?  Do other users on your instance experience the same behavior?  

I'm trying to eliminate some possibilities from a troubleshooting perspective.  I took a quick look on Atlassian's Jira Site and didn't see an open issues for this functionality.  If you've tried all those things, you could have your System Administrator open a ticket with Atlassian Support and have them weigh in on this as well.

Hope that helps.

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