From Backlog how to locate JIRA Sprint Code from hover or other option

[STONE_ Lisa]

Before JIRA Cloud a user could be in Backlog of a board, hover over the sprint heading and view the sprint code numerical value in the bottom left hand corner. (Chrome or Edge).

JIRA Cloud is not presenting with this function and sprint codes cannot be easily located or presented in a report.

The examples on help are for when a sprint is active already or has cards already but the purpose of needing a list of sprint codes is to complete a bulk upload template for large projects to assign story/cards to the correct sprint.

JQL Query has been advised as an option but this is time consuming to find a sprint code for many sprints in Backlog.

[Swathi Acharya]

Hello @STONE_ Lisa

Good day!

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Adding to @Ajay _view26_ you can use one of the below methods to fetch the Sprint ID:

1. Access Sprint Report on the board and select the required Sprint from the dropdown. Once the Sprint is selected, the URL will display the Sprint ID at the end.

2. Access Filters, switch to JQL and start searching for the required Sprint. The specific name and it's ID will be displayed in the list of Sprints when you start the search.

I hope this helps!

Thanks,

Swathi

[STONE_ Lisa]

Thankyou for taking the time to provide this helpful information Swathi - This was effective however only for past/completed sprints and the current active sprints from boards connected to that Initiative. It does not show future Inactive sprints in the dropdown list.

It's a shame this feature is now gone as it was already admin heavy and removing it defeats the purpose of bulk uploads to sprints.  We will just have to upload to the Epic and manually drag and drop to sprints via Backlog.

[Ajay _view26_]

Hi @STONE_ Lisa 

I don’t think Jira Cloud currently exposes the sprint ID in the backlog UI the same way older behavior/browser hover tricks used to.

If the goal is to get sprint IDs for bulk operations, the most reliable way is usually via API or JQL/export rather than the backlog hover behavior.

A practical approach would be:
- query issues already in the sprint and inspect the Sprint field value
- or use the Agile REST API for board sprints, which returns the sprint IDs directly

So I would not rely on the old “hover in the browser and read the numeric code” behavior in Cloud anymore. If you need many sprint IDs, API is the cleaner route.

[STONE_ Lisa]

Thankyou for taking the time to respond Ajay.  I'll take a look at creating a JQL to obtain the numerical values of the sprints.