How do we set the start date(As current Date) automatically for every task which is created.
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Hi @Gowri_Shankar_RJ and thank you for reaching out
As it stand, there isn’t a feature to automatically set the day of creation of the task as the start date ( you need to manually do it) but this would certainly be a great idea for future improvements! Don’t forget to add your vote!
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Thanks for the response and Clarification @Natalia, i was wondering if i was not aware of how to do it 
Sure it should be one of the easy and effective feature and should be on top of your next release
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I think it would be more robust to have this be something you can setup as a rule. There is already a way to make a rule for due date, I think for completeness allowing a rule for start date would be extremely helpful.
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This would be wonderful as Action in Rules!
I would be able to add a rule “if a task is moved to “In progress” section, set the start day to this day” (i already have a rule running, which sets the due date to the day the task is moved to “Done” section) - this would allow me to measure and present on Timeline the actual time spent on tasks.
It’d be a great thing for IT / scrum projects.
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Has there been any progress here? What Sylwia described above is exactly the use case I have for this.
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This could also work with the news added "Date custom field’ but so far this custom field is not available in Rules
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This feature would be great! Probably the best feature that Asana is missing.
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I am still not seeing an option to trigger anything based on creation date. I would like to have a notification sent went something is not assigned after XX days based off creation date. What am I missing is there another way to solve this. I can see Start date as an option but unsure on how that is being populated in my project since I do not even see it anywhere.
This wasn’t possible before but is now:
Note that it sets the Due date to the date created because you can’t set a Start date without a Due date. At any moment, of course, you can convert that Due date to be the Start date so long as you add a later Due date to create the range.
Thanks,
Larry
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Welcome, @Walter_Davis,
You can’t do this natively with a rule, though you could use a Formula field to do date math very easily and determine how old a task is and then have a starred, sorted saved search report that might help address this underlying need.
@lpb I have a question here: what if the task is started and ended today. The math, let’s say, for elapsed time will show 0 days, but it is actually 1 day, if we calculate based on man days. Is there an option to solve this?
Yes, I think you’d just want to include +1 in your formula in this case.
More info is here:
Thanks,
Larry