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It would be very nice!

I do workaround at the moment, but it's quite useless:
1. Add user to project.
2. Add him as watcher.
3. Remove user from project.

I did a quick patch to fix this on my server. I'm pretty sure that Jean-Philippe and Eric will have a nicer solution but, in the meantime, this one works for me...

First, edit the file app/views/watchers/_watchers.rhtml and insert the following text at line 21:

<% if @project.is_public? %>
<br>or email: <%= text_field 'email_watcher', :size => 80 %>
<% end %>

you should have something like:

...
<p><%= f.select :user_id, (watched.addable_watcher_users.collect {|m| [m.name, m.id]}), :prompt => true %>
<% if @project.is_public? %>
<br>or email: <%= text_field 'email_watcher', :size => 80 %>
<% end %>
<%= submit_tag l(:button_add) %>
...

Next, edit the file app/controllers/watchers_controller.rb and insert the following text at the start of the new function (line 40):

    if params[:email_watcher]
      wuser = User.find_by_mail(params[:email_watcher][:size80])
      if wuser
        params[:watcher][:user_id] = wuser.id
      else
        raise
      end
    end

you should have something like:

...
  def new
    if params[:email_watcher]
      wuser = User.find_by_mail(params[:email_watcher][:size80])
      if wuser
        params[:watcher][:user_id] = wuser.id
      else
        raise
      end
    end
    @watcher = Watcher.new(params[:watcher])
...

Final step: restart your web server and it should work as you like...

+1

Aranaud: Okay so if I understand correctly, with your patch you can add a watcher based on the email, as long as that email matches a redmine user? How about any email address? More like a "CC" field? Maybe Jean-Philippe and Eric can consider this functionality...

You're right: with my patch, emails have to match a redmine user. As you have seen, redmine_cc_addresses plugin seems to be a better choice for you...

Did you see #6226 ?

Thank you very much. This will be a tremendous help.

+1 to add groups as well

Jason Trahan wrote:

It appears I can only add the watchers after the ticket is created. It would be nice to be able to add them at the time of ticket creation.

See related issue #9500#note-3.

I don't understood how this work !

• Added one watcher user to a issue in with no permission on that project.
• Posted some update to a issue

• Users registered to that project received a email notification
• Other watcher user didn't received nothing
• User with no perms on the project didn't have access to a issue

How this feature is supposed to work ? Is there some docs about this ?

This change caused a major problems at least for us.
We let our customers to add new issues and watchers. And now our customers can see other customer names, which is inacceptable!
Could you please add asap setting to switch off this feature.

My personal opinion is that right solution was to add permission "can be non-member watcher" as someone suggested earlier.

Arnaud Martel wrote:

You're right: with my patch, emails have to match a redmine user. As you have seen, redmine_cc_addresses plugin seems to be a better choice for you...

Just as a follow up: thanks Arnaud, I did end up going the redmine_cc_addresses route. I also like the new feature. Maybe to ease Maxim's concerns, some permissions need to be established so that some projects allow watchers from non-members, while some projects do not.

Thanks all for all your fine work.

We are running BitNami Redmine 2.3.1 and I am not able to see users in the watchers list unless they are a member of the project. The Projects are "public" so these users have access. We are using the "Watchers Textinput plugin" - is that causing this issue? Before using that plugin, we had a long list of checkboxes.

We are using bitnami redmine stack for redmine 2.3.3, and watchers function is not working unless the watcher is project member.

Beni Bilme wrote:

We are using bitnami redmine stack for redmine 2.3.3, and watchers function is not working unless the watcher is project member.

You need to search in text box.

No, this is a bug. I am having the same issue as Beni and we are no longer on bitnami stack. This issue needs to be re-opened as a bug. You cannot add watchers who are not members of the project after issue creation.

Daniel Hochman wrote:

No, this is a bug. I am having the same issue as Beni and we are no longer on bitnami stack. This issue needs to be re-opened as a bug. You cannot add watchers who are not members of the project after issue creation.

If it is on only bitnami, please contact bitnami.
If it is on clean Redmine, do not re-open this issue, create new issue.

OK thanks. Filed #15622