Assigning dates to sprints

[Patrick Capps]

Has anyone figured out how Portfolio assigns dates to sprints? During the training class, it seemed as though Auto-Plan would assign dates and sprints to the issues. I was just wondering what fields in JIRA Portfolio uses to set the begin/end dates?

I did not see a way to explicitly assign dates to sprints other than starting the sprint, which we don't want to do for sprints that are months out. Our current process is to manually assign begin/end times to issues knowing that those dates are the begin/end dates for the sprint. Is there a better way to do this?