How to make the system Component field as single select item without any add-on plugin?

Question

The system field Component has a default assignee based on the Component field value selection during Create Issue. Because this field is mutli-select field, the default assignee field makes no meaning. Moreover I want to have another select field values based on the Component field value selection? How to set the Component field as single select instead of default behaviour multi-select?

Erik Pauli · Answer

It is not about dealing with a single issue, it is about the responsibility and expertise of certain parts of the backlog with hundreds of issues as you said. And especially therefor a lot of people are using it in combination with Dashboards, Filters (like "component in componentsLeadByUser()") and a lot more.

You are free to suggest a better workaround for product discovery purposes - until Jira Product Discovery is hopefully offering better possibilities.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Eh?  That's not what the component lead is for.  The person responsible for dealing with an issue is the assignee, not the component lead.

The component lead is the person who has responsibility/expertise/resource for working with the component, not the issue.

Erik Pauli · Answer

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-That's wrong in my opinion, because then the component-lead is useless. How would you build up a portfolio product approach with several different people responsible for the same issue in a backlog with more than thousand issues?