Need help on Planned Start Date VS Actual Start Date VS Original Start date

[shaik_irfan]

Hi,

I have a project created on 2020-01-02 08:00:00 and i see the same date available in Planned Start Date and Original Start Date, basically the project needs to be started on 2020-01-02 08:00:00 but it got started on 2020-03-08 08:00:00 now i see the Actual Start date actually populated with same 2020-01-02 08:00:00.

Basically actual start date should populate the date when the project was started.

Can anyone please help me the definations  

[Harsh Vardhan]

how are you tracking your project start condition ? any specific state value got changed when your project get started ? if yes then you can use update business rule to update the actual start date 

[shaik_irfan]

This is OOB i didnt made any customizations to it

[Harsh Vardhan]

the auto population on the actual start date field is happening due to the default value,

javascript:new GlideDateTime().getDisplayValue()

if you want to populate the date time based on your business need then you can use business rule or client script here .

based on some field changes or after form saving, you need to identify if your project start any specific field value get changes , if yes then you can use that as a condition on script to populate the date value. 

[shaik_irfan]

Harsh,

Thank you i have already gone through that. I actually wanted to know the OOB behaviour how it works if it just populate the planned start date though it future date when i start the project then what is the meaning of Actual start date then.

I am actually trying to understand the oob behaviour since clients want to know to that 😞