Synch Sprints across different boards
I have different agile boards but use the same sprint field for them all, so I see the same sprints in the backlog dropdown. But when I start a sprint on one board it does not synch across all the boards. Is it possible to do this or do I need to start the sprint on each board individually? It would seem like this is not possible with a workflow/
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Hi Anton,
I'm Sergey from the YouTrack Team. Thanks for reaching out!
The "Start Sprint" action is per-board and doesn't propagate to other boards automatically, so you'd need to start it individually on each. In practice, the "Start Sprint" action mainly matters for the burndown chart — it captures the estimation snapshot that the chart uses to draw the ideal burndown line. If you're not using burndown charts, you can skip it on the other boards.
For sprint date synchronization across boards, there's a built-in option: Link sprints to values for custom field with a Version-type field. If all your boards use this option with the same Version-type field, YouTrack keeps sprint schedules synchronized automatically — creating a sprint on one board adds it to all linked boards with matching start and end dates. You also get bidirectional sync: updating sprint dates on one board updates the linked version value, which in turn updates all other boards. See the Field-based Sprint Synchronization section in the Board Behavior docs for details.
You're right that workflows can't help here —
sprint.startandsprint.finishare read-only in the workflow API.Let me know if you have any more questions!
Thank you Sergey Merzlov , I will look into the Version Type field