Component catalog breakdown by attribute

[Keith Furnell]

Is there a better way of getting a breakdown of component counts by type (or other attribute) than filtering by each value and copying each number of results to a spreadsheet?

This could also be useful for:

• lifecycle stage
• tier
• team
• project*
• single-select custom fields
• has / does not have repository
• has / does not have label
• has / does not have mapped API specification*
• using / not using config-as-code*

* I don't think these ones can be done via filtering either?

[Keith Furnell]

For anyone after a breakdown of components by component type in particular, this is now available via https://myinstance.atlassian.net/compass/settings/component-types. Like quite a few tables in Compass, it's bizarrely unsortable.

[Jeff Madison]

Being able to filter the component list by those three items you have an * on would super useful. I have felt that pain, too.

[Sebastian Hesse]

Do you mean you go to the components overview, filter for one attribute, then copy the component count, filter the next attribute, copy the component count, and so on? I don't think there's a better way than using the regular user interface at the moment. You could write a custom script using the GraphQL API though.

Maybe as another idea: Would it help if you export the components to a CSV file / spreadsheet and do the filtering/analysis then?

[Keith Furnell]

Do you mean you go to the components overview, filter for one attribute, then copy the component count, filter the next attribute, copy the component count, and so on?

Yes, clearly not ideal! The resultant filter URLs do provide a dynamic results count when pasted into other Atlassian products, but unfortunately the numbers aren't always reliable.

Would it help if you export the components to a CSV file / spreadsheet and do the filtering/analysis then?

I guess, but that would obviously not be synced and would defeat some of the object of moving component meta data into Compass. The tool seems to have pretty good visualisation around metrics and scorecards, it just seems to be missing an equivalent of Jira's project Summary page with high-level stats.