Planned Start Date of Project Task populates automatically based on Planned Start Date of Project

[jordimsant]

One colleague has noticed that Planned Start Date [start_date] of Project Tasks that are created directly from the related lists at the bottom of the form of a Project have as default value the same day as the Planned Start Date [start_date] of the Project where it is being created (despite its default value in the dictionary is "javascript: new GlideDateTime().getDisplayValue()").

He has asked me if I could change this to a more recent date, for example, the current date. I have looked for client scripts, business rules, properties, UI Actions and everything I could remember and I cannot find which is the entity that controls this. Can anybody tell me how to solve it?

[jordimsant · Accepted solution]

I have finally found the entity that does this job. It is a Display Business Rule called Set Project Task Data, specifically the function getTaskEarliestSDate(). Functions in this script are mainly used to populate g_scratchpad, but this one does some data cooking in the middle that affects the value of the start_date when creating new records. I hope you have liked this little journey of myself around the astonishing world of display business rules.

[jordimsant]

Thank you, you are the best!