Global components

[Harold Prestage]

20 years and still no feedback from Atlassian about the ability to share components across project or make the component global, is there no apps in the marketplace that one can achieve this?

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Harold Prestage

I very much feel your pain.

Regarding app support: Depending on your exact use cases, you might want to have a look at the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a range of advanced features, including support for issue grouping by any issue field(s). For components, this also works cross-project, by grouping together components from different projects that have the same name.

This is how it looks in action:

This obviously depends on components with the same name existing across all your projects. I unfortunately don't have a great solution for this, but perhaps one could set something up based on Jira Automation?

As said, whether this ⬆️ could be helpful to you or not really depends on your use case. I should also add that JXL can do much more than the above: From support for configurable issue hierarchies, to sum-ups, conditional formatting, or easy bulk editing via copy/paste. (Bulk editing of components would also work cross-project, by the way.)

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

[Mohamed Benziane]

Hi,

therés this app. But i never used it.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221419?tab=overview&utm_medium=comment&utm_source=forum&utm_vendorID=1219470&hosting=cloud

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Harold Prestage 

There is an Atlassian product called Compass that enables you to create "components" that can be used by multiple Company Managed Software projects.

https://www.atlassian.com/software/compass

I've never used it so I can't provide any testimonials about it.

When I go to the Components page in a CM Software project I see this:

When I click on Learn More, in the help info that comes up I see this:

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

In addition to the app suggested by @Mohamed Benziane, there is another popular app for this use case:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211721/version-component-sync-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

You may want to trial both and see which one fits better.