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how to hide default watchers field from issue view screen?

jira guy_ymfmzd

Hey all,

I am using watcher plugin. So I created new created new field called "watcher"(Watcher type field) through this plugin. It works great providing features like adding watchers anytime and for some automations.

We are planning to use this watcher field for browse permission. In order to avoid any confusion, I want to hide the default watchers field. Is there a way to hide this using velocity templates?

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Andy Heinzer

I am not sure about editing the velocity template as a means to hide this information in Jira. That approach might be possible to do as well.

However I think I might have another way to hide this from view. My approach was to try to use a custom javascript that would hide those page elements from being displayed when the browser renders the page.

In this case I added this javascript to a custom field description. In this case, it might be best just to create a new custom field that only appears on the project(s) where you want to hide the watch field in Jira. This way when Jira loads the page that contains this custom field, looking at this issue details view will still trigger this custom script to run and in turn hide these elements. Otherwise, adding this to a description of a field that appears on all Jira issues for example, this would cause all these issues to hide these page elements from view.

In my testing I found that I could hide the default Watcher field on issue details view with the script of:

<script type="text/javascript">
    AJS.toInit(function(){
      AJS.$('#watching-toggle').hide();
      AJS.$('#view-watcher-list').hide();
      AJS.$('#peoplemodule > div.mod-content > ul:nth-child(2) > li > dl:nth-child(2) > dt').hide();
    });
</script>

It's possible that your #peoplemodule entry might be different. I'm afraid that the watcher elements don't exactly have an explicit selector name/id, which makes it a bit more tricky to hide these with a script. If you're Jira instance has more elements under this People section, say because you might be using another plugin to Jira, then then one of the nth-child attributes might be a different number for your Jira instance.

jira guy_ymfmzd

I have put this in announcement banner and it worked.

I am assuming this code will just hide the watcher from the user view and the field still exists on the screen. If someone tried to add watcher via rest api it will work?

Could you explain your code?

Andy Heinzer

Yes, that is true. This just hides this element from being displayed on the web page. It does not disable any REST functionality with Jira. So yes, a REST user could still use/see this watcher information.

The code is derived from this Confluence guide on hiding page elements: How to hide elements in Confluence using CSS or JavaScript.

What I did was to click and select this part of the page itself, then right click and select the Inspect option in my browser. I know Chrome and Firefox have this option to show you the html code of the page. From there it is a matter of finding the selector tags in the code in order to hide those elements.

jira guy_ymfmzd

This is great. Thanks for explaining and pointing to the kb article. I have tested this in my sandbox environment. It works both in field and announcement banner. For some reason it doesn't work in custom field in production but works in announcement banner.

So I am assuming nth child element is correct but it is not rendering through the custom field?

Renat Osmanov

System menu --> General Configuration --> Edit Settings

In Option menu list find WATCHING and click button OFF. Also you can switch off Voting

jira guy_ymfmzd

I tried that already. But it will also disable watcher plugin configuration.

I mean it turns off entire watching feature.

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