I find it hard to believe this is not being addressed. Is there a related bug somewhere that asks the same question? Surely it makes sense to be able to add a group into the watcher field?

Can you advise how others do it, apart from adding people one-by-one?

Is there any progress on this? We'd really would like to have this feature in Jira to not have to add all watchers from a department one by one.

Thanks for taking the time to raise this issue.

Due to the large volume of JIRA feature suggestions, we have to prioritise our development efforts. In part, that means concentrating on those issues that resonate the most with our users.

I am writing this note to advise you, that we have decided to close your Suggestion as it has not gained traction on jira.atlassian.com. We believe being upfront and direct with you will assist you in your decision making rather than believing Atlassian will eventually address this issue.

Thank you again for your suggestion and if you have any concerns or question, please don’t hesitate to email me.

Kind Regards,
Kerrod Williams
JIRA Product Management
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Is a bit confusing not to have the same functionality in JIRA especially and have it in Confluence.

In our company are used to share pages with groups in Confluence and they suppose that the same can do in JIRA.

For that reason we have created dummy users with same name of group but this made the things even more complex because in Confluence appears a user and a group with the same name. In Confluence apart from sharing this confuses more in page restrictions.