Making the component field in an issue non mandatory

[Nina Sommermeier]

Hi, 

I set up a company managed Project in Jira and need the component field in issues to be non mandatory. 

I deleted the component field but every time an issue is created a message appears that component is required. So this was not the solution.

Can someone help me? Is it even possible to make the component field optional?

Thank you,

Nina

[John Funk]

Hi Nina - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Go to the Field Configuration used by the project and make the Components field Optional. 

Settings > Issues > Field Configurations

[Jose Perez de Guzman Macaya]

Hi John, just a quick clarification. Will this make Components optional to all the screens? Can it be made optional only to certain screens?

[John Funk]

No, you can't control system fields like that with the Field Configuration. You could try to control that by adding a Validator to the workflow for that issue type.