External Watch

External Watch

What is External Watch?

External Watch allows external users to subscribe to shared Jira tickets and project, keeping them updated on relevant changes.

Benefits

  • For external users: Saves time by providing direct notifications about updates on

  • For your team: Enables faster collaboration, as work progresses more efficiently.


How to Subscribe to a Shared Jira Ticket

On each shared link, you can find the “Start watching” button allows logged in users to subscribe to the work item.

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To unsubscribe, click the “Stop Watching” button.

 

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Once a user starts watching an issue, all their subscriptions are visible on the Dashboard under the Subscriptions tab.

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Inviting watchers

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You can invite watchers by adding their email addresses.
Invited users will see subscription invitations on their dashboard under Subscribe Invitations.

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Subscription rules

Subscription rules depend on share configuration.

All non-restricted page changes (title, description) for all non-expired shares are notified to users subscribed to the page.

Additionally, based on share configuration, the user will receive notification about:

Changes in fields :

  • Status

  • Priority

  • Assignee

  • Reporter

  • Labels

  • Due date

  • Time tracking

  • Original Estimate

  • Fix version

  • Versions

  • Components

  • Custom fields

When fields are enabled to share in the link

 

New comments

When “View comments” is enabled

New attachments

When “View attachments” is enabled