YouTrack Cloud 2024.1 Help

Watch Issues

YouTrack lets you watch the issues you are interested in. You can also set another user as a watcher for an issue. When notifications are enabled for your YouTrack server, you and other users are automatically notified when changes are applied to the issues you are watching.

You and other users can specify which changes you want to receive notifications for on the Notifications tab of your YouTrack profile. For more information, see Notifications.

To watch an issue:

  • From the Issues list, click the star icon to the left of the issue ID.

    Star issue list
  • In quick view or single issue view, click the star icon to the left of the issue ID.

    Star single issue view

To watch an issue:

  • From the Issues list, click the star icon to the left of the issue ID.

    Star issue list
  • In single issue view, click the star icon to the left of the issue ID. Alternatively, you can click the star icon on the right side of the screen above the project fields.

    Star single issue view
  • Open the Apply Command dialog and enter the star me command.

    Star me command

Once you have added yourself to the list of watchers, you receive update notifications according to the subscription settings for the Star tag in your YouTrack profile. To learn more, see Subscribe to Updates for the Issues You Watch.

Add Other Users as Watchers

Sometimes when you create, update, or even view an issue, you realize that the topic it addresses may be important to other members of your organization or project team. If you have been granted the Update Watchers permission in the project that this issue belongs to, you can add other users to the list of watchers.

This action adds the Star tag on behalf of the users you add to the list of watchers. These users then receive update notifications according to the subscription settings for the Star tag in their YouTrack profile.

To set another user as a watcher:

  1. Open the issue in quick view or single issue view.

  2. Click the counter next to the star icon in the upper-right corner of the issue.

  3. Enter the username or full name of the user who you want to add as a watcher. YouTrack filters the list of users as you type.

    Add watcher
  4. Select a user from the list.

To set another user as a watcher:

  1. Open the issue in single issue view.

  2. Click the number to the left of the star icon above the project fields.

  3. Enter the username or full name of the user who you want to add as a watcher. YouTrack filters the list of users as you type.

    Add watcher
  4. Select a user from the list.

You can also set another user as a watcher for one or more issues from the Issues list. Simply select the issues in the list and apply the command add watcher <user>.

View the List of Issues You Are Watching

You can display and review all the issues that you are currently watching in the issues list. This helps you perform the following actions:

  • Check the current status of the issues that are most important to you.

  • Remove the Star tag from issues that you no longer want to watch.

To view the list of issues you are watching:

  1. Click the Issues link in the application header.

  2. If you're currently using filter mode, click the Switch to query mode link at the top of the list.

  3. In the search box, enter the query has: star (tag: Star works too), then press Enter or click the Search issues icon.

    • YouTrack displays the list of issues that you are currently watching with the Star tag.

    A list of issues with the Star tag.

To view the list of issues you are watching:

  1. Click the Issues link in the application header.

  2. Expand the Tags section in the sidebar and select Star.

    • YouTrack displays the list of issues that you are currently watching with the Star tag.

    Option to show issues with the Star tag in the sidebar.

    Alternatively, you can enter has: star in the search box (tag: Star works too).

    A list of issues with the Star tag.
Last modified: 20 April 2024