Strange burndown chart view missing ideal line (guideline)

Franz Schmidt October 14, 2013

Hi, I have a problem with the ideal line (guideline) in my burndown chart. It is missing and it is NOT because I add stories after the sprint started.
If I look at the Sprint log file below the burndown chart, I can see that Jira Agile used the time I 'created the Sprint' as the 'Sprint start' time. So, in this case I created the sprint at 12:00pm before the Sprint planning meeting. The Sprint backlog got filled during the Sprint planning meeting and I 'started' the Sprint at 03:00pm after the Sprint planning meeting.

IMO this is a bug or am I doing someting wrong? Time should only start ticking when I hit the SPRINT START button. Where would you suggest to file issues like these? best,

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Franz Schmidt January 23, 2014

Easy fix is to set the start time of the sprint to a future point in time. Then everything is caluculated correctly

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Charles Liu February 14, 2018

Yup, setting start date to past was the problem. Edit the sprint and have it start today fixed it.

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Michael Zedeler January 7, 2014

Ditto.

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Chris Waldron December 3, 2013

I'm having this same problem as well.

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