The Add watcher post function allows users to add/remove watchers to/from the current, parent, selected or any issue returned by a parser expression.
You can retrieve the users from either an existing field, project role, or group.
Use cases and examples
Use case | JWT feature | Workflow function | Use case description | Complexity |
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Update the sub-task's assignees by the current issue's value | Update the sub-task's assignee from its parent | BEGINNER | ||
Set the fix version from the current sub-task for all sibling sub-tasks | Update the fix version of all sibling sub-tasks from the current issue. | BEGINNER | ||
Copy the due date from the current issue to blocking issues | Copy the due date value from the current issue to blocking issues. | BEGINNER | ||
Set a date field to the current date | Update fields | Set a Date Time Picker field to the current date | BEGINNER | |
Copy field values from epic to issues under it after creation | Update fields Transition issue | Copy the values of the fields defined in the Update fields post-function to the issues under the epic after their creation. | BEGINNER | |
Add watchers from another field | ||||
Obtain the difference between two dates | Update a number field with the difference in days between two dates obtained from two Date Picker fields. | BEGINNER | ||
Set the priority to Highest if the 'Infrastructure' component is selected | Update fields | When an issue is created with the "Infrastructure" component selected, the priority will be set to "Highest". | BEGINNER | |
Set Fix version to Affects version when resolving an issue | Update fields | When an issue is resolved and the resolution set to "Done" the Affects version/s will be added to the Fix version/s field. | INTERMEDIATE | |
Set a date field to a future date | Update fields | Set any date field of an issue to a future date. | BEGINNER | |
Add three days skipping weekends automatically to a Date Picker | Add three days to a Date Picker field from the current date. | BEGINNER | ||
Add a sub-task's summary and key to the description of its parent | Update fields | When a sub-task is created, its summary, issue key and date, and time of creation will be added to the description of the parent issue. | BEGINNER | |
Transition parent issue to another status | Transition issue | Transition the parent issue to the "Open" status. | BEGINNER | |
Start progress on the parent issue | Transition issue | When a sub-task is transitioned to the "In Progress" status the parent issue will be transitioned to the "In Progress" status as well if it is still in the "To Do" status. | BEGINNER | |
Start progress on an issue immediately after creation | Transition issue | The transition to start progress on the current issue will be executed directly after its creation. | BEGINNER | |
Fast-track transition issues assigned to the project lead | Transition issue | Automatically execute the "Start progress" transition if the issue's assignee is the project lead. | BEGINNER | |
Escalate an issue if it is being raised with a "Blocker" priority | Transition issue | When an issue is raised with a"Blocker" priority, a transition escalating the issue will be executed immediately after its creation. | BEGINNER | |
Auto-transition when related issues are in a specific status | Transition issue | Automatically transition issue, if all linked issues are in specific status. | INTERMEDIATE | |
Send email after transitioning to specific status | Often it can be useful to notify specific users about certain changes. For example, if an issue reaches a specific status, it can come in handy to get a notification about this update. In this ise case an email will be send to the reporter, assignee and the project lead, if a specific transition has been executed. | INTERMEDIATE | ||
Inform the project manager about an added attachment | Send email | Within the Send email post function you have the possibility to send HTML links in the message as well. | ADVANCED | |
Alert the assignee of an important issue | Send email | Send an email to the current assignee only if the priority is set to "Highest" or "High". | BEGINNER | |
Translate the description | Execute remote action |
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Transition an external Jira ticket based on the linked internal one | ||||
Set User Picker field with users from group | ||||
Set the assignee of an external issue same as the transitioned issue | ||||
Retrieve the assets of an issue in Jira cloud | ||||
Read the information from a Trello card | ||||
Notify the reporter of an issue about its status by a Telegram message | ||||
Link issue to issue mentioned in its description | ||||
Link a Jira issue with the corresponding release ticket |