Add watchers ignoring inactive users

Use case

Add only the users of a group that are active to an issue as watchers. In this use case, the group will be jira-administrators.

🛠️ Configuration

Add the Update or copy field values post function to the desired transition or create a new transition.

Target issue

Choose Current issue

Fields

Field

Choose the New watchers field.

Value

Choose Set field value manually

Expression

Use the following expression with the expression editor in Advanced text mode.

Bash
toString(filterByPredicate(usersInGroup("jira-administrators"), isActive(^%)))

This expression will return all of the active users in the jira-administrators group.

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