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Why is setting the category of a project so non-obvious?

Ray Kiddy

I am looking at our list of projects in JIRA. I am in the 'Browse Projects' page and the 'All Projects' navigation tab is selected. There is also a 'No Category' navigation tab directly above that.

So, here is a list of projects broken out by category. And the functionality to set the catogory of a project is ... somewhere else? Where? Where else would it be?

Sorry if this question seems newbie-ish. There are just so many things in JIRA where I am looking at X, Y, and Z and I can change X and Y and, in order to change Z, I have to go to some completely different part of the application. I think these just need to be called out.

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Joe Rohan

I agree with Ray, inconsistencies. My peeve is that you can't rename a workflow but you can rename everything else. But let's focus on this one.

Why not put the Project Category setting along with the other project settings? Use a select list of the existing categories. I can set the URL here, but I can't set the URL where I can set the category back on the project. Neither of these settings is important, but making users go to more than one place to set them is not good design.

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Timothy

It would be in the Administration of the project.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Defining+a+Project

Ray Kiddy

And yet the 'Browse Project' view shows me Projects and Categories. I can click on a Project. Can I click on a Category? No. Why not? Why not have the thing to be changed near the display of it?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Because it's something you do at a project level.

Ray Kiddy

So, if I was able to cclick on the Category, then that could take me to the Project Administration page where I could set the Category? And it coud even select the correct sub-part of the page.

Joe Rohan

I agree with Ray, inconsistencies. My peeve is that you can't rename a workflow but you can rename everything else. But let's focus on this one.

Joe Rohan

Like Timothy Chin mentioned, the solution is in this document

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Defining+a+Project

It says:

About project categories:

The project category is not edited in the Edit Project dialog. Instead, click the link next to the Category field (under the project name) on the project Administration page.

I actually think reading this backwards is easier, that is:

Go to the Project

Click Administration

Below the project name are several links, click the link next to "Category:"

Now you can change the Category!

Funny how they mention that this is not in the Edit Project dialog (where it belongs)!

unknown

Perfect, glad I read all the way to the bottom. Moderator should wipe out everything up to Joe's comments.

kevin conroy_sgx0kr

Quick and easy answer summary - THANKS!

Crazy how you can't create a project category and then move a whole bunch of projects into it; having to go to project-admin-category on each on is time consuming.

Typical JIRA though - user UI, pretty sweet, admin UI.. could do with a bit more love and thought. (er, a bit like my own solutions)

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