Where has 'Add Watchers' gone in the new JIRA view?

[Rodolfo Marrero]

No fixes yet? This looks pretty self-inflicted... 

[Hostvisors]

Just cannot understand why they are breaking things that are critical to us.  What benefit are they deriving from this?  It's certainly not to make customers happy.

[Sahi Balmuri]

Hi,

This is still an issue both in the old and the new view.

Adding watchers is a very useful feature. Can you tell when this will be available?

thanks

Sahi

[Catalin Dorneanu]

In order to activate the feature, you need to enable the Manage Watchers permission in the project's Permission schema to the roles you need.

[Brett Farrell]

I find that I can add watchers now in some projects and not in others (Jira cloud)

The permisssions is po complex I'm not diving in just yet to look why...... but it seems there is sometimes a way

[Henry Cho]

Please add the functionality.  It's absence causes what would otherwise be avoidable distress among team members.

[Anthony Brittis]

I was one of the original people that reported this issue.  In my version of Jira Cloud - I can now add watchers by clicking on the watcher's "circle"... so for me... the issue seems fixed.

[John Schuster]

I am in the new view on a cloud instance and recently we saw the eyeball appear in the upper right corner of a JIRA, clock on it to add watchers.

and this is what get when you click on the magic eye

[Amna Fayyaz]

Hi John, I'm unable to add watchers. can you please guide me how to added this?

[Jason]

Am I stuck in old view or is this fixed in the new view now? I have the eye econ now and can add/view watchers again.

[Robert Janssen]

Agreed, fixed for me in new view as well now.

[Janice Warren]

Agreed. Please restore the ability to add watchers when creating a new issue.

[gblee]

Please return it!

[Isaac Davenport]

In the cloud version, this feature recently showed up in the two cloud instances I use, I can click the tablet icon for the number of watchers on an issue I didn't create and add someone other than me as a watcher now.

[Nik Vseer]

That looks like the old view, not the new one which has an "eye" icon for watchers.

[Robert Janssen]

Trying to explain to my user base how to get access to this as well...

Having ability to add other watchers is basic functionality that we all need.

Surprised it's taking over 9 months to build this...

[Christopher Duncan]

hat have you done! Removing a critical feature??? Ignoring your user base's feedback? I'm going tp recommend to our Eng leadership that we start looking for an alternative product.

[Isaac Davenport]

We also need this feature.

[Simon Podboraczynski]

same problem, adding to the frustration as our organisation found this useful as well 

[Anthony Brittis]

I just opened a new question here:  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/Where-has-Add-Watchers-gone-in-the-new-JIRA-view/qaq-p/916905#M38614

Feel free to chime in there.  I can't believe this was removed.

[Priyank]

we also have same issue on watchers, no one knows if issue has some updates. old version we can add watchers and get that notifications.  Please fix this.

[Diego Chahin]

Is there a community manager that can at least offer where we are with this? This thread feels abandoned. Maybe this is something we should be all posting elsewhere

[calvin]

Probably because this question is being considered "answered".   We should post a new question.

[Carol McDonnell]

I posted this a few weeks ago because I hadn't found this post yet.  All they really did was direct me to this post.  No resolution.  I won't "answer" my ticket.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/How-can-you-see-the-watchers-of-a-ticket-in-the-new-JIRA-UI/qaq-p/875324#M37743

[Chitwan Malhotra]

We add and remove watchers all the time, JIRA will be frustrating to use without this feature.  People are complaining about JIRA in our Org. not good.

[Scott Saccone]

If I end up having to use the new view without an "add watchers" button, is there another way for me to have my team members watch issues? Must I manually email them and ask them to watch an issue? Or perhaps comment on the issue with "@name" tags? Thanks.

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi @Jason Lewis,

just click on the number of watchers:

[Jason Lewis]

You cant that is the OLD VIEW, the new view literally only allows you as the user to watch.

See screenshot

[Thomas Schlegel]

It‘s the latest view I see on Jira Cloud. I will have a look at that tomorrow 

[Thomas Schlegel]

Sorry, I looked at a Software project, not a business project with a core board. My fault.

@kai gave you the correct answer, I think.