Adding watchers automatically in Jira Projects

[Timo T]

Hey!

At the moment we are adding watchers manually to Jira projects. Would there be any ways for that JIRA reporters and custom user pickers are automatically added as watchers?

Thank you very much!

tim

[Radek Kantor · Accepted solution]

Hi, check http://bytes.org.ua/products/jira-plugin-pack/ there is post function

Add user to watcher list (workflow post function) – Add user (Assignee, Current, Reporter or selected user from multi select)

[Mizan]

You can even opt for Jira Watcher Field plugin

[Radek Kantor]

I think that Jira Watcher Field is only CF type implementation for existing watchers on issue, so you cat find/filter watchers, but there is probably no post function to add new watcher automatically.

The best will be write own post function as a plugin and use some configuration to define other issue user field IDs as the watchers source, because it looks like Jira Plugin Pack not support custom user fields, it only works with system reposter, assignee and current user fields.