Managing Projects - How do I manage "not-only" software project with Jira?

[Fonteyn Katarzyna]

I am pretty new to Jira, and I was wondering if I could manage a general non-direct software project. Within that project I would have sub-projects and some of those sub-projects will be software development. My target is to view the dependencies and follow-up all sub-projects. At this moment I am not sure of the outcome of this project but we are going to refine this during the project with the team. How would you suggest I could do this in Jira?

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

There is no hierarchy between projects. You can not include one project into another project. 

But in any case, I think what you mean you want to make a hierarchy of issues not projects. You can do it with such plugins as Structure or Big Picture.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

If you do want to group projects up, there are project categories.  This does not do a lot (it has nothing to say about configuration for example), but it does enable you to see them in groups, and run searches for issues like "assignee = me and category = 'billable'"