User Forum > How do you change start date?
Estimates in LP always represent remaining effort therefore tasks will be scheduled from today or later depending on priority order, availability, and dependencies. Note, that LP always calculates starts and finishes for you. You can delay a start or build dependencies to reflect real-world constraints. Other than that, LP is always trying to resource-level your plan.
In a future release we will support the ability to set a historical actual start but you can not do it as of this post. Our current recommendation is to keep copy of your current plan for review purposes and switch to LP with a "from this point forward" perspective.
Charles Seybold
Sometimes "projects" get going at some level before the planning is finished. Being able to post date the start date will be an often-used scenario for us. Please let us know when this gets into the DEV queue.
Bob Slone
I second (third?) the request for this feature. It would also be helpful when planning project timelines for proposals.
Linda Schmandt
Hi Linda,
If you want to adjust when something will start in the future, you can set a "delay until" for a task or a container. This will make sure it starts no earlier than that date.
Adam
I need the feature as well. I manage multiple short-term projects (2-6 weeks) with multiple tasks simultaneously. Things change a lot and I need to adjust the project/task infos frequently (including its start dates).
T T
Another urgent request for this feature. The inability to assign a real start date significantly hobbles LP as a real-world tool.
Edward H
Hi Edward,
When you say a "real start date", what exactly would you want the behavior to be? Are you looking to specify when a project was started in the past, or set and explicit date when the project start in the future. The two interpretations have different consequences.
In the first case, we typically define the first time logged to be the start of the project, though we are looking into alternatives.
In the second case, LiquidPlanner allows you set the delay until which ensures that no tasks in a project start before that date.
Adam
I have a 30 day aggregated task that began back on Jan 15. However, it's now Feb 20. And I entered this parent task on Feb 20.
Unfortunately, LP begins the start date of the task on Feb 20.
How do I force the start date to begin on Jan 15th (which is when it began)?
I basically jumped into this project mid-stream. So, I have to enter certain parent tasks that are in the middle of being completed.