# Indirect Notifications

Get notifications on changes made to **linked issues** and **subtasks** of the issues you are watching. This is a very useful feature to **not miss anything** that may influence your issues.

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**Example Use Case**

You as a **help desk operator** created a ticket for a customer. You identified the ticket as a change request made to a software component your company develops. You initiated a **development task** for the IT department and linked it to your ticket.

You must notifiy your customer as soon as the change request is **developed**.

Instead of watching the development issue, you **enable indirect watches** in the Watches tab of your help desk Jira project.

As a result, you will get email notification **if the linked development issue is resolved**.
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**Example Use Case 2**

As a developer, your project manager **assigns an issue to you**. You want to make sure that you won't miss any additional technical **subtask** being added to your issue.

Instead of constantly watching your issue for potential new subtasks, you **enable indirect watches** in the Watches tab of your help desk Jira project.

As a result, you will get email notification **when a subtask is added** to your issue or if a subtask of your issue changes.
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In order to receive indirect notifications, you must **enable indirect watches** in your project.

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**Jira Permissions**

Indirect  watches do not violate Jira permissions. Bug Watcher will **not reveal details of linked issues or subtasks to unauthorized indirect watchers**.
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