This is one of the JIRA's most voted feature requests and Atlassian suggest to use this plugin as a solution to subcomponents. In a large project you may have a lot of component and grouping components in various ways may be helpful. For example you may group Hardware and Software Components differently. You may define your Mobile or Database related components differently. You may define a hierarchy which groups components according to their physical location.There are a lot of use cases are given in comments to issue JRA-846. You can also check our example use cases.
In the below screenshot you see project in which components are grouped technically.
Each node in component hierarchy may be a "virtual component" (folder) or a real project component as explained below:
You can create "Virtual Components" and "Real Components" directly inside this screen. You can also delete or edit a virtual component but to edit a project component you need to use build-in "Components" page of Jira.
If a component is used in the hierarchy it is shown with dashed border. You can hide components already added to hierarchy using the icon.
You can add a component to hierarchy more than once. |