Adding permissions to watchers

[Elisabete GASPAR]

Any way I can get watcher to have certain issues permissions such as add comments or attachments?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

"Watcher" is a flag on an issue saying "this person is interested", it's not a user "role" you can attach permissions to.

[P_D_ Foerster · Accepted solution]

Hi @Elisabete GASPAR,

this is not possible out of the box. However, there is a free plugin called Watcher Custom Field for Jira for Jira Server. With that you can create a custom field for watchers.

This plugin interfaces with the actual watchers from Jira. Using that custom field you can grant permissions. If you want to grant 'Add Comments' permission, choose for Granted to the type User custom field and as value the name of your custom field of type Watcher Field (for example 'My Watcher Field').

Regards,
Patrice

[Elisabete GASPAR]

Thanks! we are also looking into it.

[Aaron Williams · Accepted solution]

Do the watchers already have other permissions, or are these unlicensed users (public instance) who can see your project, or are these licenced users who can only browse projects?

We had a similar problem where some teams wanted people to only be able to view, comment, and add attachments, so we created new View Only permission scheme, group, and project role, and made this a default group in jira - this helped to reduce the number of issues created, and transitions executed by mistake.

• Manage Groups
• Create permission scheme
• Manage project role

[Elisabete GASPAR]

We do not use any public access so only licensed users.

We also implemented a similar role (Read-Only) in one of our instances to manage users who can only browse. But I was hopping we could add a permissions related to specific issues (same as reporter, current assignee)