Can I log time on one issue but assign it across multiple projects?

Question

Hello all,

We are fairly new to using Jira and Jira Agile, and want to know if something is possible.

We currently have around 6 active projects and a further 4-6 in planning and pre-production. Within each of these project are tasks that get repeated over and over (management tasks, meetings etc....).

We would like to set it up that all of these tasks are put in one project, then when the user reports on their time they can assign that time against one of the "Actual" projects (so when the management and finance teams run their reports they can see with project the time has been assigned to.

At the moment we are having to input the same task in multiple project for the time to be reported on correctly.

Pete Morrish · Answer

I'm looking into something similar, I think. Essentially, we have members of staff that are cross-project. Said members of staff sometimes go on holiday. We need to be able to allocate and log that holiday time across the projects to which they're assigned in the correct proportion.

This feels like the same sort of problem as outlined above, but I do not understand the proposed solution. Could anyone shed some light?

Steven White · Answer

I think i understand and follow that. Will give than a go

Jose M_ · Answer

If the Project "Common Task" will anyway include separated issues for the different software development projects, you can use a component to reference to each SW Project. In this way, the component would be used as the connection to the SW Development Project: Project | Component | Issue
Common Task | SW Project A | Issue-1 Common Task | SW Project B | Issue-2 etc. It would even be possible to associate several "Components" to an issue under "Common Task", if in some cases it shouldn't make sense to report hours separately. I hope, this helps a little.