Is there any script to remove the inactive users from the watchers

[srikanth kocherlakota]

How to remove the inactive users from the watchers using groovy ?

[srikanth kocherlakota]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- , can you please help on this request.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Probably.  What are you using to run scripts?

[srikanth kocherlakota]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- , We are using the scriptrunner plugin addon in jira. Can we accomplish using this addon ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Definitely can do that with Scriptrunner.

Pseudocode would be

• Iterate through affected issues
  • read watchers and iterate over contents
    • if user is active, add them to a temporary list
  • write list back to watchers 
  • clear list out for next issue

[srikanth kocherlakota]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-  Is it possible to provide the full code  ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's not something I've ever thought to do before, inactive watchers don't cause problems, so I don't have any code to hand.

Take a look in https://library.adaptavist.com - there's a load of scripts in there, some of which work with watchers and others with (inactive) users.

[srikanth kocherlakota]

Hi Nic,

I have gone through this before, i have look the similar script 

A console script for removing inactive users from the board administrators. but i am looking for the inactive users from the watchers list

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The code in there should show you how to identify inactive users, so the next step would be to decide how you're going to iterate - by issue or user (i.e. do you read a list of issues where watchers is not empty and then check each user in the watchers list, removing them if needed.  Or do you read the list of users, then search for issues with each inactive user named?)