Feature request - template dates

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @anon32380032,

Yes, this is well-known issue; you can add your vote to change it here:

Project Template assigned tasks show up in My Tasks automatically

I was excited to use the new Templates function, but see that it goes ahead and creates a task for the Task Owner in My Tasks before it is turned into a project and clutters up their Task list. Is there any way to have task owners assigned in the template without it moving to My Tasks until you create a project? When I deleted the template all of the tasks remained for my team and it took and hour to clean up. It is just easier for me to copy a project at the time we start our process if this is…

(I suspect the forum moderators will merge your post into that one.)

Also, please see item F4 in the following post - it provides a number of workaround ideas for this limitation that you might want to make use of:

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