Link Dates to Project / Task Dates

If the Link Dates to Project / Task Dates option is checked, the Assignment dates are derived from the project (or task) dates (depending on whether the assignments are managed at the project or task level for this project) and cannot be directly entered on an Assignment.

When this option is used, a user can have one and only one Assignment for a given project/task.  As such, when setting this option, if multiple assignments previously existed, they will all be removed and replaced with a single Assignment.

As the related project/task dates are modified, all Assignments having linked dates will also have their dates modified to reflect the new project/task dates.

Using the Default New Assignments to be Linked to Project/Task Dates  (unanet.default_dates_to_linked.assignments) property, this checkbox can be checked by default when the Resource Assigner accesses this screen.

Note that this may be particularly useful when used in conjunction with Task Dependencies feature, such that moving a task date will not only recalculate dependent task dates but also any linked Assignment dates.