Versioning sub-projects (epics)

[Mattias Thalén]

I have a big project for our Qlik development.

It contains one epic per Qlik app and each app has a version number. 

I’m trying to figure out how to handle versioning. The function for that in Jira seems to be for the entire project, not the sub-projects.

My first thought was to use labels for this purpose. 

Do you have any other suggestions?

[Mattias Thalén · Accepted solution]

I was also thinking I should use components for the different apps and epics for versions of them. But I can’t seem to find components in my project. 

[Trudy Claspill]

Components are defined by a user who is assigned the the Administrator role for the project. Are you such a person?

[Mattias Thalén]

I am, but as far as I’ve understood it’s not available for next-gen

[Trudy Claspill]

That is true. There is an open change request about it which you can vote for here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17601

In this post, @Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_  mentions some alternatives to Components in Team Managed projects.

[Mattias Thalén]

Thank you for your help! ☺️

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

Hi @Mattias Thalén ,

I recently wrote an article about alternatives for next-gen components that were mentioned across the Atlassian community posts 👉 https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/How-to-create-Components-in-team-managed-former-Next-gen/ba-p/1693783

To the topic of versioning in your project when you manage multiple apps. What you can eventually do is to add a prefix to your Jira versions in order to differentiate for which app they're.

If you're open to using Jira plugin you can try to use our app Swanly. There is a feature in the app called "Templates". You can create your own templates and tag your versions with them. Then in the app, there is a list view of all your versions and also a roadmap and you can filter by these templates.

In your case Templates can represent different apps.

I hope this helps :)

Nikki

[Mattias Thalén]

Not a bad idea!

[Trudy Claspill]

Is it an option for you to set up separate JIRA projects for each Qlik project, instead of using Epics within one project for each Qlik project?

[Mattias Thalén]

I’m afraid not, for several reasons The biggest one being is that we can’t create project ourselves, we need to raise a ticket with IT to have it created. Not so flexible.