Remove sprints from backlog without deleting them?

[Dale Tan]

From my experience with jira, is that you can add a ticket from any Project into any sprint. However, when you accidentally add tickets to a sprint that was apart of a different Project, that sprint is now visible in your backlog. Knowing that I want nothing to do with this now "empty" sprint, how do i remove it from my backlog without deleting it? 

This would be scenario:

- Project A and Project B

- Project A has Sprint A1, Sprint A2

- Project B has Sprint B1

- Both Projects have their respective sprints showing up in their Backlog

- Project B creates a ticket and inadvertently adds the ticket to Sprint A1

- The ticket is then immediately changed to be in Sprint B1

- After this, Project B now has Sprint B1 and Sprint A1 in its Backlog even though Sprint A1 is empty with respect to Project B

How would one remove Sprint A1 from Project B's Backlog WITHOUT deleting the sprint since Sprint A1 is still used in Project A?

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

When the issue was moved to  the correct sprint, did you just drag-n-drop it or did you manually edit the Sprint field? If you dragged it to the correct sprint it still reference the incorrect one. Take a look at Sprints shared between multiple boards for more information.

[Dale Tan]

lol...that is a very unintuitive way to make this work. I haven't tried it yet, but after reading I'm pretty sure I understand what needs to be done. And yes, a lot of the time it's just drag-n-drop when I'm moving tickets around. It makes zero sense as to why that functionality keeps a sprint around but editing the label of the actual ticket does not.

However, I still see one problem - if i have an empty future sprint (so not active yet) and I don't see any tickets within that empty sprint, how can i find out which ticket was actually associated with that sprint so I can modify the correct ticket's Sprint field?

[Mikael Sandberg]

You can do a search on that sprint to see if you get any results back. The JQL will look something like this:

sprint = 290

You will get the number if you just start typing the name if the sprint.

[Dale Tan]

@Mikael Sandberg thanks for the help. I think the docs need to be slightly updated as it seems like dragging the ticket does remove the sprint from your board now if it is not a sprint that was created by your project.