599403 - At Installation that has multiple products that all use the same components

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 209195

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

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Build Identifier: 4.3.8

At Installation that has multiple products that all use the same components.
Currently when creating a product have to add the components each time that a new product is added  

Need to be able to manage a components list that applies across mulitple product.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new product
2. System forces you to add components under that product

Actual Results:  
You have to create the same components each time you add a new product.


1) Create a new product
2) When adding a component, provide a method that you can select existing components

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Okay.

Instead, why don't you just create a custom field? They already have the same values across all products.