What is a Component?

A Component is a folder that organizes your features within a product. Components are broad buckets for categorizing your different feature ideas — for example, "Mobile App", "Billing", or "Onboarding".

Components should be defined around stable concepts that rarely change — user needs, product areas, or technical domains — rather than short-term projects or initiatives. Since components are the primary way of organizing features, they should help you and your colleagues gain a holistic view of your product.

In the Productboard UI, components can also contain subcomponents for additional structure. The API treats subcomponents as components with a parent component relationship.

When to use it

Organizing features — Group features by product area, team ownership, or functional domain.
Building product structure — When setting up a workspace programmatically, create components after products and before features.
Area-based reporting — Query components to break down roadmap progress or feedback volume by product area.
Team alignment — Map components to the teams responsible for each area of the product.

Hierarchy

Product
 └─ Component      ← you are here
     └─ Feature
         └─ Subfeature

A component belongs to exactly one product (parent). It can contain one or more features as children.

Key fields

Field	Description
`name`	Display name of the component
`description`	Rich-text description of what this area covers
`status`	Current status
`owner`	The member responsible for this component
`archived`	Whether the component has been archived

Field availability depends on your workspace configuration. Use the Configuration endpoint to discover which fields are available for the component type in your workspace.

Relationships

Features support several relationship types:

Relationship	Description
`parent`	The product or component this component belongs to

When creating a component, you must specify a parent product using a relationship.

Related objects

Product — parent of a component
Feature — child of a component
Subfeature — grandchild, nested under features

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