Automation for adding all watchers to a child issue upon creation

[Uwe Pilz]

When creating a story for a parent epic or a subtask for a story I want that all watchers of that epic or story are automatically added to the child ticket.

I tried the following:

I suspect though it only takes the first watcher - not all. How can I add all watchers?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Uwe Pilz 

You can't create a Variable in a branch and then use it elsewhere. The Variable ceases to exist when the branch execution is completed.

Also, branches in Automation rules run in parallel, so you can have the actions of a branch depending on the actions of a branch listed earlier in the rule.

This is the rule you need.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Uwe Pilz 

Some fields of a parent issue are visible to the child, without any lookups.  That includes the watchers.

And, when adding the watchers from one issue to another, they can be added by referencing them directly.

Putting those together, you could simplify your rule to this:

• trigger: issue created
• action: re-fetch issue  (The issue created trigger can fire so quickly that some data may not be available to the rule yet.  To fix this, always add the re-fetch issue action immediately after this trigger.)
• condition: parent is not empty
• smart value condition:
  • first value: {{issue.parent.watchers}}
  • condition: does not equal
  • second value: leave this empty
• action: manage watchers
  • add them with this: {{issue.parent.watchers}}

When you enter that smart value in the Add these watchers field, it will appear below the field.  Select it to use for the values.

Kind regards,
Bill