Some Jira Templates don't have components?

Question

HI, trying out some of the Jira Project templates like Task Tracking & Personal Task planner, and I notice that I can't add components to them in the Project Settings, the option is just not there, so when I edit an issue in these projects the Component field is there, but I can't select anything. Is there a way to add this in?

Regards
Damien

Hans Polder_7ci2ta · Accepted Answer

Hi @Damien Lee ,

Welcome to the community!

There are several types of projects that you can create, when you look at the 'bigger picture':

- team managed projects

- company managed projects

According to the documentation, 'Components' are only available in the company managed type projects. The two project templates you've mentioned are both 'team managed' projects, hence they don't offer the 'Components' functionality.

If there is something specific you'd like to achieve in the mentioned projects, feel free to share your use case, so we can help out with some other approaches, maybe :)

W_Diehl _Litew8 GmbH_ · Accepted Answer

Hello @Damien Lee

there are different kind of projects in Jira.

Jira work management vs Jira software (Atlassian announced to merge those soon)

And Team-managed vs Company-managed.

The problem with the missing component field sounds like you have been setting up team-managed projects, where components do not exist.

In case you are looking for a way to setup company-managed projects based on Jira's native templates including predefined sets of components and other project content/issues, you might want to give our app 'Project Templates & Issue Templates for Jira' a try. It's free under 10 users.