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Add watchers to an issue from any field, be it, for example, the Assignee or the Reporter fields.

Using this combination of functions in several transitions will enable you to add several watchers if the user of the field changes, but not to remove them.

Configuration

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title	Set up the custom field and the transitions that you are going to use.

UI Steps

UI Step
Create a default User Picker (multiple users) field, and name it All watchers

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This field can remain hidden, that is, not added to any screen. It will not affect the outcome of this use case.

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Create a global reflexive transition (a transition from any issue to itself).

UI Step

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title	Set up the Update fields post function.

UI Steps

UI Step
Add a Update fields post function to any workflow transition but the global reflexive one. The Create issue transition can be a good choice here.

UI Step

Target issue

Choose Current issue

UI Step

Fields

Choose All watchers

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Value

In the popup, choose the value Set field value manually (parser expression)

UI Step

Expression

Enter the following expression:

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%{union(union(toStringList(%{issue.cf10001}), toStringList(%{issue.assignee})), toStringList(%{issue.watcher}))

with parsing mode set to General and replace the field code %{issue.cf10001} with the field code for the field All watchers

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As it is, the expression will take the value of the Assignee field. It could be changed for the Reporter field or for a custom User Picker field replacing the field code %{issue.assignee} with the one of your choice.

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Run as

Choose Current user

UI Step

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title	Set up the Transition issue post function.

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UI Step
Add a Transition issue post function to the same transition as the previous post function.

UI Step

Target issue*

Select Current issue

UI Step

Mode*

Select Execute transition

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Select the transition to be executed

Select the global reflexive transition previously created.

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Delayed execution

Delay the execution of the post function 1000 milliseconds.

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title	Set up a Copy Value From Other Field post function

UI Steps

UI Step
Add a Copy Value From Other Field Jira post function.

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Source Field

Select All watchers

UI Step

Destination Field

Select Watchers

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Select the transition to be executed

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Destination Field

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