Adding issue to Active Sprint

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Creating a new Scheduled Issue there is an option to add scheduled issues to currently Active Sprint.

You can set it up in the 2nd step of the Scheduled Issue Wizard. Instead of Fixed sprint choose Active Sprint.

Here is an example of Active sprint and pending scheduled issue:

When trigger is fired and issue is created it is automatically added to active sprint:

In case there is no Active Sprint, issue will be added to the backlog:

When the sprint start, new issue will be added to it:

Issue will not be added to active sprint, if the parallel sprints feature is turned on and when there are multiple active sprints in board. If there is no active sprint, the creation of SI will also fail.