Add automatically observer

[PION-DRANCY François]

Hello,

As product manager, I am in charge to create Epics, then Stories.

The project manager manages tasks and sub-tasks from stories.

But I am never alerted when they are created, modified, or when status change.

How to add automatically the epic or story author as observer of taks and subtasks depending of ?

Best regards.

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @PION-DRANCY François 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

That could be done through an Automation Rule. Jira Administrators can create Automation Rules, and they may have also granted that permission to Project Administrators. Are you the Project Administrator for the project? If not, you could ask the Project Admin and/or Jira Admin if they would be willing to create such a rule for you.

If an Automation Rule is not an option, then you could execute a search to find all those issues periodically. And, if you have been granted permissions to execute Bulk Changes, then you can execute a Bulk Change on the results of that search to add yourself as a Watcher to all the issues.

You mentioned that the project manager "manages tasks and sub-tasks from stories."

The issue type hierarchy for Jira does not support Tasks being a child of Stories. The hierarchy is:

Epics
|-- standard level issue types (i.e. Story, Bug, Task)
    |-- subtask level issue types

If your project manager is creating "dependencies" between Tasks and Stories, that is probably being done with generic issue linking. The filtering necessary to find issues related in that manner is different than finding child issues of Epics or finding Sub-tasks, and would impact both the Automation Rule solution and the Bulk Change solution.