Schedule Projects › Autoschedule Projects › Autoschedule Projects from a Start Date

Autoschedule Projects from a Start Date

When you schedule a project from its start date, Autoschedule attempts to schedule all project tasks to start as early as possible. When you run Autoschedule using a project's start date, it calculates the early start and early finish, moves the early start forward, checks for fixed loading pattern assignments, and adjusts the early start or early finish to make sure that fixed assignments are within the date range of the project.

When you autoschedule your project, the task start dates change to the date you enter or a later date, except in the following cases:

• The task has a status of "Started" or "Completed".
• The task has a Must Start On scheduling constraint.
• The task is marked as Locked for Scheduling.
• The task has resource assignments with fixed loading patterns before the entered start date.

To schedule your project from a start date

1. Select Autoplan from the Schedule group in the Project ribbon.

   The Autoschedule dialog box opens.

2. Enter the date on or after which you want to begin scheduling tasks in the Start Date field, make sure the Schedule from Finish Date field is cleared, and click OK.

   The project or selected tasks are scheduled.

More information:

Autoschedule Projects