Add component(s) to all projects

[Razvan Radulescu]

Hello All,

We have a couple of components that need to be added to every project in our JIRA instance (we're on JIRA Cloud). Is there a way to bulk add these somehow?

I have found this KB: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-bulk-import-components-into-jira-720418562.html and option 2 seems to be what I need, but nowhere does it state that this route will add that issue to all projects. 

Thank you,

Razvan

[Elisa Chacon]

We also need global components.  Adding a component project by project is a pain.

[bryan]

is there global component now ?

[Vincent]

Nope :(

[bryan]

this is frustrating. can you put this in your product log ?

[Joe Yesh]

Yeah, This is the most awaited feature that is being asked by many from 2015 what I see in other forums too.
Jira should not just go by votes, they should also think of present issues & metrics that everyone to get quick hold of count in a hierarchical way to look their issue against their projects.

I upvote to have this feature shortly.
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-8663 - Any still need to vote, please do so. 

[Wade Hephner]

Vote early and often. 

[Deleted user]

any update on this?? we also need it asap

[Vincent]

Same here.

[Rich Kentopp]

Plz to make components global ok thx

[Jenn Sherman]

I hacked this for us by creating a new drop down field with the "component" values I wanted everyone to see.  I then added the field to all the relevant issue types.

[Steven Ventimiglia]

Using your approach is there a way to add more than one component, per issue?

[Jenn Sherman]

If you create your field as a multi-select drop-down, you should be able to do that

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

To ge the method you've found to work, you will need to repeat the contents of the import file for every project you have (plus repeat deleting the loading issues)

You might be able to do this with the ScriptRunner add-on for Cloud, but I would actually start with some external scripting or coding.  Write something on your computer that can use REST to read the current list of projects and add the components to each of them.

However, I'd also think carefully before doing this.  Components are project specific.  If you add the "same" component to all projects, they're still separate components.  If, for example you have "penguins" in five projects and you search and push the result through a gadget displaying "component", you will get five separate lines, one for each penguin.

[Razvan Radulescu]

So, no UI way to do this? :) I'm not a programmer, just the admin.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, there's no way to do it in the UI,

This is because it's mostly useless - people generally don't want swathes of "global" components that are not actually global.  (We do want proper global components, but adding the differnet components to projects with the same name is not a global component)

[Kateri Tyre]

This is super important for our team, too. I desperately want global components. How can I add fuel to this feature request. It's something Clubhouse and Trello do with ease. This team is aiming to shift tracking tools to Jira in order to take advantage of the sophisticated metrics, but without this global component list to be able to associate with all projects, we lack the ability to get the metrics we need. This may mean that we abandon the push to Jira entirely. 

That being said, I've been digging through these forums for far too long to get an answer for what seems to be a common request and I've got forum fatigue. 

Is there another field we can leverage that we can populate with a global list of our things (in our case: microservices) in order to associate with each project? We would also want to filter this for searches and reporting.

Please halp. Jira terminology is profoundly confusing.