Adding watchers

[Scott McDonald]

Is there functionality within the toolbox to add watchers based on transition, keep those watchers I just added and add a set of new watchers when a different transition is selected?

For example, on create, I had 3 watchers. Then when I select the submit for approval transition, I want 3 new watchers to be added and keep the previous 3 watchers. I would now have 6 watchers total.

I also want the ability to manually add/delete watchers at anytime.

Thank you, Scott

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Hi Scott,

You can do it inserting "Copy a parsed text to a field" post-function into the transitions you want to use for adding new watchers. Use the following configuration:

where:

• user1, user2 and user3 are user names (not to be confused with user's full name).
• group1 and group2 are group names. All the users in those 2 groups will be added as watchers.
• role1 and role2 are project role names. All the users in those 2 project roles will be added as watchers.

I warn you that there is a bug in JIRA 7.0 and higher that is causing problems for removing watchers when added using a post-function.

There are 2 issues open on this issue: Issue #386 and GHS-45491.