System Components field appearing in screen where it is not defined

Question

I have a project where project admin has created Components, but this system field was not added to any of the create, edit , view screens.

However users are able when bulk changing issues to update the components which are then appearing in the screen. They cannot edit that field but they can see it in the view screen which is not supposed to contain it.

I have even one issue were components is empty and still visible on the view screen.

Is it a specific feature of the Components field? I couldn't find any documentation on it.

Sylvie Ruffin · Answer

Well my users don't need me to go to the Atlassian pages and know all the funny features. And with JIRA 6.4.5 we did not notice this issue.

I guess we will have to review our policy on bulk change but that's going to be a battle.

Tom Lister_97sldx · Answer

Hi @Sylvie Ruffin

You can control access to bulk updates through the global permissions although only via groups. Ideally I would restrict it to a project admin role.

We don't make users aware of the feature as it's easy to cause a lot of damage.

Gergely Fehér · Answer

What are those limitations with the field configuration hiding? Can you add some more details why you find it problematic? (I'm just curios, as I'm plannign to rebuild our project config structure in the near future, and have a lot of uncertanities in screen configs vs. field configurations.)