Start Date based on Days Before/After Milestone?

[Kristen_Wong]

Hi - I am wondering if it’s possible to set the start date for certain tasks to be based on X days before or after a Milestone? I have clients who sometimes need to push out their appointments, and it’d be great to not have to manually go in and adjust the start date on each task associated with their project. Thank you!

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @Kristen_Wong and welcome to the forum!

Asana does not natively provide this capability. It is available in my Flowsana integration, via Flowsana’s Dynamic Duration workflow type.

FYI Asana is rolling out a type of date auto-adjusting, but not what you’re describing; you can see more about that here:

Dependencies

Hi @sue2 and welcome to the forum! Asana is just in the process of rolling out an enhancement where dependent dates will auto-shift if their dates conflict (overlap) with the changed date on the precedent task you updated. They actually had rolled out that feature but there was an issue with it, so they’ve temporarily rolled it back and are fixing the issue. You can read more here: (Also FYI, if you’d prefer to have all dependent tasks auto-shift, as opposed to just those which are in date…