[#JRA-7663] Grant permissions to watchers

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Grant permissions to watchers

Created: 16/Aug/05 07:38 PM Updated: 26/May/08 06:19 AM

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JRA-7776 When adding watchers, the user-picker dialog should only show users who have access to the project.

Participants:	Jeff Turner [Atlassian], JP Patrikainen, Nick Menere [Atlassian] and Sulka Haro
Since last comment:	19 weeks, 2 days ago
Support reference count:	3
Labels:	support_improvement

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Currently the watch list can only be used in notification schemes, not permission schemes. It would be useful if one could grant the Browse permission to 'All watchers', and then selectively add people to the watcher list when they need to be able to see the issue.

This is especially important now that notifications take issue visibility into consideration. At the moment, if I add someone as a watcher but they can't see the issue (not being in an appropriate group), they won't get sent a notification. If I could preemptively grant "All watchers" the Browse permission, I could then safely add watchers, knowing they will be able to see the issue.

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Sulka Haro - 26/Aug/05 07:02 AM

Hi! We just tried to setup a project with issue-level permissions with the idea that people on the watchlist of an issue could see the issue but then noticed it's not possible. Please consider implementing this - it would add a lot of versatility to Jira.

Alternatively of course you could implement multiple reporters and/or multiple assignee support.

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Nick Menere [Atlassian] - 28/Aug/05 09:44 PM

Thanks for your commennts Sulka.

This would come in very handy when using Jira in a Help desk environment where you want to grant multiple users from a company or division access to an issue.
And I think this issue is a lot less "controversial" than multiple assignees and reporters.

Cheers,
Nick

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JP Patrikainen - 12/Mar/08 05:53 AM

Hi,

We like to have this improvement too.

We have three security levels and one of those is company confidential where our people, reporter and current assignee sees the issue. It would be good that we could add "All Watchers" on this list.

BR,
JP