What is the impact of Component Creation?

[Chris Volker]

We have users creating new Components in JIRA and we are advised by Component Watcher they are doing so.  These users have Project Level Admin permissions.  We receive a banner notification that "User X made configuration changes in section 'Component Watchers' at X time. It is recommended that you perform a re-index".  Do we need to make that re-index immediately?, (Just curious, why does a component need a re-index?)  or alternatively, can we restrict component creation since this does impact a Production environment.

Thanks!

[Boris Berenberg · Accepted solution]

You don't need to re-index after creating a new component. However, I believe that the plugin may need a re-index for some reason. I have added the tag for the plugin to this question to see if maybe someone else knows more about it.

[Chris Volker]

Thanks much for your reply! This tells me the plugin is the focus there. We'll see if there are other contributions on the topic.