How your plan rolls up dates
This page refers to the advanced planning features that are only available as part of Jira Cloud Premium and Enterprise.
In your plan, you can use the roll-up dates function to schedule and update parent work items based on the dates of its child work items. Your plan rolls up Start Date and Due Date fields by default. However, you can use custom dates or sprint dates instead. Find out how to configure and use custom dates in your plan.
In order to use dynamic dates, the date fields of parent work items need to be empty (regardless of which date field is configured in your plan), nor can it be assigned to sprint. This is because manually set dates override rolled-up values.
Rolling up dates is a calculation that only exists for planning purposes in your plan. When you commit changes back to your Jira work items, these rolled-up values aren’t saved and the date field of your work item will be empty.
When a date is inferred, your plan adds an arrow to the field that’s been rolled up, as well as a striped candy-cane pattern on their timeline bar, as shown below:
If the bar fades out in one direction, you have a partial roll-up in your plan. What are partial rollups in Advanced Roadmaps?
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