Assign current date on creating a task

when a task/activities is created, how to assign the current date as the start date of task/activities

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It would have been possible, if you could set the Default Value of the Activities.Title Block.Schedule Start Date attribute’s value to $NOW. But unfortunately that’s not a feasible option for Title Block attibutes. So I don’t think there’s any way to achieve the requirement you want without writing a Post Event on Create Object or Save As Object.

By the way, when you create any new Task or Activity, then by default the current day & 8:00 AM is taken as the schedule start date. So unless you wanna use the exact current timestamp, I don’t think you don’t even need any custom program to set that & let Agile handle it or modify manually during or after creation.

Agile Expert Answered on August 30, 2018.

Yes, unfortunately default value for the date cannot be set to $NOW. I tried with an event to set the date and it worked. However, if the task is created from Gantt chart, the event would not get triggered.

In the system, if the task i am creating is a child task, then the start date of the parent task is being set as the start date of the child task

Example: If the start date of parent task is Aug-2015 and I create a child task under it, then the start date of the child task should be today’s date(not Aug-2015).

on September 5, 2018.
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