Add Watchers and Vote buttons are greyed out in Team Managed Project issues
Platform Notice: Cloud Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
Add Watchers and Vote buttons are greyed out in issues.
Environment
Jira/Jira Service Management cloud.
Diagnosis
In company-managed projects, project permissions govern the ability to add watchers and vote on issues.
In team-managed projects, the Administrator access role is required to be able to add watchers and votes to Jira issues.
In some cases, with the administrator role, the user notices that the Watchers and Voters buttons are greyed out.
Cause
In the Jira Settings > System > General Configuration (https://<sitename>.atlassian.net/secure/admin/ViewApplicationProperties.jspa), the ability to watch issues or vote on issues is set to OFF, which disables them across all of Jira.
Solution
In Jira Settings > System > General Configuration, click on Edit Settings and set the options below to ON:
Allow users to vote on issues
Allow users to watch issues
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