How do I get a sum of all the story points in a sprint for next-gen UI?

Question

I'm on Jira Cloud, next-gen UI.

So I've read that we should be using Story Point Estimate for next-gen, and we've done that for our stories. But the backlog does not show how many points are in the sprint!

When I try to change the Board Settings > Estimate to Story Point, it seems to be pulling from the classic field, not the new field, so all the colored circles are blank?

What am I doing wrong?

Petter Gonçalves · Answer

Hello Jocelyn,

I'm glad to know you were able to find the root cause of the issue.

Let me know if there's anything else I can help with.

unknown · Answer

I have found the true source of the issue! Most of my settings are correct, with one exception .. listing for future searchers.

At some point during setup attempting to de-dup the two, I had hidden the Story Points field under Jira Settings > Custom Fields, so it didn't show up regardless of my board settings. Setting it to show fixed things.

Petter Gonçalves · Answer

Hello Jocelyn,

That's is expected behavior.

JIRA has one specific field to track each project type and a different field might not work:

- On Classic projects, the estimation is measured on the Story Points field

- On Next-gen projects, the estimation is measured on the Story Point Estimate field

Using the wrong field, the estimation will not appear in the board, just like your screenshot display.

The one which is displaying correctly is the Story Point field, although it is displayed as Story Point Estimate because of the mentioned bug.

Please, keep using the Story Point field and remove the Story Point Estimate from your classic project, so the estimation will be properly displayed.