Why do roll-up dates based on sprint only work when you include a board in your "work in your plan"?

[tyler.atchley]

As indicated in the question if I use any combination of Filter or Space WITHOUT a board in the "work in your plan" then even if I have the setting under "Estimation and Scheduling" - "Work items with empty start or end date fields" set to "Use dates from their assigned sprint" the roll-up dates don't work and they're just blank.  They'll only roll-up hardcoded dates from the Start date/Due date fields.  I don't want to hardcode dates though.  I want the dates to reflect the reality of changing work on the team... ie having the roll-up dates reflect the sprint dates the work is actually happening in.

This doesn't work though if a board isn't included.  Yes I can hear the first question already of "why don't you just include a board?" and the reason is my Plan is for a specific cross functional program and the teams work on multiple programs at a time.  I don't want to reflect everything that everyone is doing in a plan specific to a certain program. 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @tyler.atchley 

I don't have an answer for "why".

As a workaround have you considered creating a scrum board based on the filters and spaces you are using as sources for your Plan and then including that scrum board?

[tyler.atchley]

That's an interesting thought.  Appreciate the suggestion!  Let me see what it does. 

[tyler.atchley]

As a workaround this seems to work!  Thanks!

[Trudy Claspill]

You're welcome!