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How can I get rid of version and components menus in a software project ?

unknown

Hi,

as a former user of jira getting back to it, I've discovered the presence of these two items in the left menu bar of any software project, which we absolutely don't need in our projects.

Though they just lead you to an empty screen stating there are no components or versions activated yet, I'd like to get rid of these screens and menu items so as to keep it simple for our users

would you know of any setting that provides control over this default menu, or possibly just deactivates versioning and components in a software project ?

I've been searching for a couple of days through forums and third party sources, to no avail

thanks indeed for any help

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Have you used the "field configuration" in the project to hide both fields?

unknown

yes indeed. To my understanding, hiding these fields just deactivates them in any screen that would make use.
but it has not impact on these two useless menus

Sam Hall_h1otcf

Have you considered changing your project to a "Business" type project?

I have projects set up as this type and they don't show the Versions and Components icons in the left-hand menu.

Depending on your version of JIRA, the downside is that the 'Board' link in the left hand menu points to the default JIRA Core style board, which only has limited configuration options.

This doesn't prevent me from creating full JIRA Software agile/kanban boards to view and manage issues in a "Business" project, though. I just have to create/access them from the 'Boards' menu.

unknown

thanks Nic and Sam for contributions

@Sam : business project do not manage agile mode with a backlog and sprint, only the backlog in its entirety, which unfortunately does not fit our simple but straightforward need for an agile project management that is just not pure software, or even if it was, where components and versions are not useful

As always with jira, I am amazed at the dead ends we sometimes hit, though the tool is flexible is so many other ways

hope there's a way around ! It seems to be a new feature from last year's upgrades, as I haven't seen it in prior versions. How weird to make it default and compulsory

Sam Hall_h1otcf

I've got a business project running in a JIRA Server (version 7.3) where I have a scrum board with backlog and sprints set up to manage the issues.

Are you sure you can't get what you want by doing this? What functionality does it not provide that you need?

unknown

ahhh that might be interesting, we've tested it last week but did not find the board for sprints as a default. Did you have to set it up specifically ?

It probably does fit our need in this case, indeed.

(and yet the unability to configure what features a software project might need is a surprise to me)

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