Jira - Not notify watchers.

[Jason Turner]

Sometimes small changes to a Jira issue are made, nothing special that watchers need to be notified. In Confluence I can make updates and uncheck notify watchers, is there a way to not notify watchers on a particular Jira issue update.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

Not possible at the moment. The only workaround is to make the change in "Bulk Edit" even if you are editing a single issue! You will get an option not to send notifications in the end.

[Kevin Mote]

This is a good strategy, but unfortunately bulk edits prohibits modifications to the following fields (among others): •Summary •Description •Environment •Time Tracking fields

[Aviad Herman]

I don't get it, this request is so easy to solve:
Jira, please implement an "stealth" mode that once toggled on does not send any notifications upon change.

The user can just choose to turn stealth mode on / off at will.

[Juan Romero Fernández]

Any change about that?

thx.

[Bhushan Nagaraj]

Hi Jason,

You cannot choose per issue. But you can choose to not notify watchers on any issue updates by setting the notification scheme accordingly.

Cheers

Bhushan

[Kevin Mote]

Yes, _if_ you have sufficient privileges. I'm an admin, so I"ve set up a Notification Scheme called "Temporarily Suppress All Notifications". I just switch the project to that scheme momentarily, edit the issue at hand, then switch the scheme back. Of course, I'm in a small shop so I can get away with shenanigans like that without much concern.

[stephaniep]

This option can be tweaked or indeed removed in the Notification scheme which can be updated by your global administrator.

[Frederick Von Chimpenheimer IV]

All these work arounds are not so great. Fixing typos in an issue generates an email, but making tweaks to confluence has a "Notify Watchers" checkbox. It's kind of incongruous.

[Daniel Wester]

Depending on what you're trying to accomplish - you can set up a loopback workflow step that triggers the emails and have a transition screen on it that lets people edit the fields. Once the transition screen has been filled out - a Condition on the workflow can trigger a custom event which in turn can be used in your notification scheme.