Configuring Issue Components

In a project, you can define products, components, owners of components, and releases, of your project before creating and assigning issues to project members. You can define multiple product categories, components, and sub-components; customize the releases; and add custom fields for your project.

To define issue components, you must be assigned the Owner role of the project.

Managing and Configuring Issue Products

You can create and manage issue products, releases, and components from the Products tab of the Project Settings: Issue Tracking page.

A component is a subsection of a product. Each product must contain at least one component.

To view or edit an issue product:

1. In the navigation bar, click Project Settings.

2. Click Issue Tracking.

3. Click the Products tab.

4. In the Products list, select a product to view or edit its details.

   To create a product, click New Product.

5. In Releases, add, edit, and remove releases of the product.

   To make the release the default release of the product, click Mark as Default .

6. In Components, add, edit, and remove components of the product.

   To make a component the default component of the product, click Mark as Default .

Viewing or Editing an Issue Product Details

In the Products tab, select the product in the left list to view details.

To view or edit an issue product:

1. In the navigation bar, click Project Settings.

2. Click Issue Tracking.

3. Click the Products tab.

4. In the Products list, select a product to view or edit its details.

Creating an Issue Product

A product is a category that represents an entity. You can create multiple products for a project. On the Create Issue Product page, you create an issue product and enter its details such as releases and components.

To create an issue product:

1. In the navigation bar, click Project Settings.
2. Click Issue Tracking.
3. Click the Products tab.
4. In the Product List administration page, click New Product.
5. Enter product details.
6. Click Done.

Deleting an Issue Product

You can delete an issue product from the product list of the Product tab.

You cannot delete a product until issues or reviews refer to it. First remove all issues and merge requests that refer to the product, and then remove the product.

To remove an issue product:

1. In the navigation bar, click Project Settings.
2. Click Issue Tracking.
3. Click the Products tab.
4. In the product list of the Products tab, click the icon on the right side of the name.
5. In the Delete Product dialog, click Yes to confirm.

After confirmation, the product is removed.

Managing and Configuring Issue Custom Fields

You can create and manage custom fields for the issues of your project from the Custom Fields tab of the Issue tracking page.

The Custom Fields tab displays the issue custom fields and enables you to view and edit their properties. To create a custom field, click New Custom Field. To hide a custom field from create or edit issue page, select the field, and select the Obsolete (Hidden) check box.

Creating a Custom Field

You can create your own custom fields for an issue. The custom fields are available in the Details section of the New Issue page when an issue is created.

You can create the following types of custom fields:

• Single line input text
• Single selection
• Multi selection
• Long text input
• Time and Date
• Check box

To create a custom field:

1. In the navigation bar, click Project Settings.
2. Click Issue Tracking.
3. Click the Custom Fields tab.
4. Click New Custom Field.
5. Complete the elements.
6. Click Done.

Note:

You cannot change a custom field's Name or Type after it has been created. To edit the value of Name or Type, remove the custom field and create the custom field again.

To remove a custom field, mouse over the field name in the Custom Field list, and click . Click Yes in the Remove Custom Field dialog to remove the field.

Viewing and Editing a Custom Field’s Details

To view details of a custom field’s details, select the field in the list and view or edit its details on the right,

You can edit the field’s label, change its available status, and hide or show it, but you can’t change the field’s name and input type.

Deleting an Issue Custom Field

You can delete a custom issue from the issues list of the Custom Issue tab.

To remove a custom issue:

1. In the navigation bar, click Project Settings.
2. Click Issue Tracking.
3. Click the Custom Issues tab.
4. In the issues list, to the right side of the name, click Delete.
5. In the Delete Custom Field dialog box, click Yes to confirm.

After confirmation, the custom field is removed. All existing issues are automatically updated to remove the custom fields.