# Watch Projects and Manage Watchers

## Watch a Project

Bug Watcher allows you to **watch entire JIRA projects** instead of individual issues.

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**Example Use Case**

You want to **get notified** of changes made to **all issues** of a project. JIRA Notification Scheme in this project specifies the events Watchers should be notified.

Instead of setting yourself a watcher of all issues in the project, simply **start watching the project** via the Watches project tab.

As a result you will **receive emails** on **all issues** of the project about issue events set for watchers in the notification scheme.
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### How to do it?

In the Project's left toolbar click on **Bug Watcher** icon, then **Watches**<br>

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Click on Watch Project

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## Manage Project Watchers <a href="#watchprojectsandmanagewatchers-manageprojectwatchers" id="watchprojectsandmanagewatchers-manageprojectwatchers"></a>

Just as if you did for issues, you can (if you're authorized to) **add or remove project watchers** easily.

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**Example Use Case**

Your project admin assigned the **Manage Watchers permission** to you so that you can add or remove watchers to or from  an issue.

You want to make sure that **your users watch all issues** of a project.

Instead of adding them as a watcher to all issues, you **add them as project watchers**.

As a result, you users will receive notifications as if they were set as a watcher of all issues of a project.

**Note, the users can watch/unwatch a project themselves**.
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### How to do it?

In the Project's left toolbar click on **Bug Watcher** icon, then **Watches**<br>

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Add individual watchers, project role and group watchers in the Manage Project Watchers section.

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### Optionally Notify User Watchers  <a href="#watchprojectsandmanagewatchers-optionallynotifyuserwatchers" id="watchprojectsandmanagewatchers-optionallynotifyuserwatchers"></a>

User watchers may be sent a notification about the fact that they were added to the watcher list of a project.

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The notification email is a user friendly message about becoming a watcher.

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