Hi @anon7951965 and @Emily_Roman!
So I don’t know of a way to do what @anon7951965 is asking here as you are creating a brand new project manually but there is a way to do something like this using a Custom Project Template. There is a full posting about it here: Now rolling out to Asana users—schedule projects with custom templates
The jist of it is this:
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You create a Project template with a set due date or start date (this can be completely arbitrary which date you choose as it wont matter in the end).
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You then create all the tasks with all the dependencies in place and assign the due dates for the tasks that align with the Project start date or due date that you set. (for example, we use this feature for planning tradeshows at my company. We set the due date of the project template as the first day of the show and then backwards plan all of the tasks from that date. So for shipping our booth we set that as 7 calendar days before the start of the show, etc)
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Once you have your project template set up, you create a new project using the template and when you set the start date or due date of the project (based on what you chose in your template) Asana automatically sets all of the due dates for the tasks based on that date. (So if the show date is 8 Dec then the shipping the booth task automatically set’s its due date as 1 Dec)
This may not be very useful to you depending on how you are using Asana but if you have a standard repeatable workflow that you will use over and over again this is a fantastic feature. I look forward to see what others have to say on this topic as possible work arounds!
Cheers,
Matt