Component Management

[Amanda Busiello]

How can I  export a list of all components in a project and its description? 

[Amanda Busiello · Accepted solution]

thank you! I selected the text  and copied and pasted it. so much simpler than I thought. 

I need to mass create components. Would the best way to do this be a bulk import with a CSV file? 

do you now how a template would be set up to bulk import components into a project? What would the columns be named? 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Amanda Busiello 

There is no function for that in the UI.

You could use the REST API to get the information.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-project-components/#api-group-project-components

You could also select all the text on the Components screen...

...and paste it into Excel

[Trudy Claspill]

The only way to bulk import components using the CSV import is to import a single issues with multiple components assigned to it.

Note with that method you can only add the Name of the component. You can't add any of the other information like Description or Default Assignee.

You would have the required columns for importing an issue, and additionally you would have a set of identically named columns - each one containing one unique Component name. If you are an admin for the project, that would cause one new issue to be created and one Component for each value you provided for Components for that issue, and that one issue would have all the components assigned to it.

If you wanted to get the rest of the Component information (Description, etc.) in at the same time you would have to use the REST API.

[Hamza Chundrigar · Accepted solution]

Hi @Amanda Busiello 

The first comment of this article might be useful to you: 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-export-a-list-of-all-the-components-in-a/qaq-p/1090344

[Amanda Busiello]

thank you!!