Delete empty sprints from a board

[Mayank Agarwal]

I was trying to create sprints through a script but I mistakenly created 100s of sprints in a single board. Now I can't find a way to delete those. Tried using the rest APIs but it's not working. If anyone knows how to get it done, please help.

Thanks

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mayank Agarwal 

Have you used that board with the team yet?

If not, I recommend creating a new board and deleting the one with the hundreds of sprints.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Mayank Agarwal]

Hey Bill,
Thank you for the suggestion but the board is being used by one of our team. So, I won't be able to delete the board. Please do let me know if you have any another solution. 

Regards,
Mayank

[Bill Sheboy]

My next suggestion would be to carefully use an automation rule to delete them, about 100 at a time, or so, by calling the REST API function:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/api-group-sprint/#api-rest-agile-1-0-sprint-sprintid-delete

If they match a naming pattern, you could build that into the rule to find/delete them.

Remember that this is not a reversible action, so ensure you have the correct ones.

[Mayank Agarwal]

Yes, it worked.
Thank you