You can create components in the Jira Software company-manage projects, Jira Work Management and Jira Service Management.

If you would like to create components in a team-managed project try Octo - Component management app for Jira Cloud.

Create components in Jira step-by-step

  • Go to the Components tab in the Jira project menu
  • Click on the Create component button
  • Add Component name
  • Click on the Save button
  • The Component was now created and you can assign it to your Jira issues

You need to be Jira or Project administrator to be able to create components in your Jira projects.

Would you like to create cross-project components in Jira? Read more in this post.


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