Saving an agile team results in error "You must set a value for Auto-populate Estimate if it is enabled" in Jira Align
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Summary
Learn the cause and how to fix the error "You must set a value for Auto-populate Estimate if it is enabled" when creating an agile team in Jira Align.
Diagnosis
Attempting to save an Agile team results in the following error: "You must set a value for Auto-populate Estimate if it is enabled"
Cause
“Auto-populate Estimate” is a field toggle present on the “Kanban Team” details panel. If the affected Agile Team was changed from a Kanban Team at some point in the past, the “Auto-populate Estimate” field can remain enabled in some circumstances which can lead to this error.
Solution
“Auto-populate Estimate” is a field toggle present on the “Kanban Team” details panel. If the affected Agile Team was changed from a Kanban Team at some point in the past, the “Auto-populate Estimate” field could remain enabled in some circumstances, which can lead to this error.
Disable the "Auto-populate Estimate" toggle
Change the "Type" field back to "Agile Team"
Save changes.
You should now be able to assign the Team to a new Program without error.
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