Manage Watchers in Create Issue

[David Kubyk]

Hi,

Is it possible to manage/add to the Watchers list when creating an issue? I would find it very helpful to assign the ticket to a user and then add Watchers in the create issue step.

Thanks

David

[Christian Czaia [Decadis AG] · Accepted solution]

Hey,

these are the first Google results:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-5493

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-2167

http://justinit.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/jira-add-watchers-at-issue-creation/

Cheers

Christian

[Jennifer Zou]

So... right now...this is not possible without plugin?

[Tye Howard]

You can use the Post transition functions to add a watcher as part of the workflow.  (Just make sure you put the field update after the ticket creation). It doesn't provide the versatility that I would have liked, but it solves my present problem.

[Vladimir Alexiev]

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.jira.plugin.workflow.jira-watcher-field

Works great: you can add watchers on create, or change them on edit. (And if you want to change them before Commenting, do edit but don't change any fields)

[Jennifer Zou]

Link does not work...

[Vladimir Alexiev]

The new link is https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/6306/watcher-custom-field-for-jira