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How do people deal with the Sprint +1 Issue?

Xenia Chilkowich
Contributor
September 3, 2026

I want to the ability to view items in Filtered Lists that show me the actual sprint names of anything that encompasses multiple sprints instead of seeing the Sprint +1 value.  The closest workaround I've found is exporting the data into Excel. I want to see this in JIRA, not have to export it. 

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Jovânio Junior
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September 3, 2026

Hi Xenia,

This is a known limitation in Jira’s issue list view. When an issue has been associated with multiple sprints, Jira may display the Sprint field as something like “Sprint +1” instead of showing every sprint name directly in the column.

Unfortunately, there isn’t currently a native setting in the issue navigator/filtered list that expands that column to show all sprint names individually.

A few possible workarounds are:

open the issue details to see the full Sprint field;
use JQL to filter by a specific sprint;
export the results, as you are already doing;
or use a reporting/app solution if you need the full sprint history visible in a table.

If the goal is specifically to see all sprint names directly in the Jira list view, I believe this would need to be handled as a product improvement rather than a configuration change.

Hope this helps!

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Natalia_Kovalchuk_SaaSJet_
Community Champion
September 8, 2026

Hi Xenia Chilkowich ,

Sprint +1 can be really frustrating when you want to see the actual sprint names directly in Jira rather than having to open each work item or export the data to Excel.

You can try to use Issue History for Jira (Work Item History) app by SaaSJet. In the app, you can add the Sprint field as a column to see the actual sprint names linked to your work items directly in the table.

sprint-history-jira (1).png

The report can be filtered by project, sprint, JQL, date range, or specific work items.

It also helps answer questions such as:

  • What work items were moved to the following Sprint?
  • What work items were in more than one Sprint?
  • At what time was the Sprint modified?
  • Who made the change?

If at some stage you do need the data outside Jira, you can export the report to Excel or CSV.

I recently prepared a more detailed guide specifically about this use case, including how to view all Sprint values and transitions: How to Track Past Sprints in Jira

This should provide you with a simpler alternative to exporting the list of work items to Excel each time.

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Martin Sturm - JXL
Atlassian Partner
September 4, 2026

Hi @Xenia Chilkowich,

to the best of my knowledge, the native list view can't be configured to expand the Sprint column, so the "+1" rendering is there to stay for now.

If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, JXL for Jira solves exactly this. It's a full spreadsheet view of your work items inside Jira, and its Sprint column shows every sprint an item has been in, with sorting and filtering like in Excel. If you want the data more structured, there are also dedicated smart columns such as Closed sprints, Active sprint, First/Last sprint, and Number of sprints. A sheet can be based on any JQL filter, so your existing filtered lists carry over directly.

Here it is in action:

Filtering by sprint name in a JXL sheet

For transparency: I'm on the team behind JXL.

Hope this helps, Martin

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