[ANSWERED] How to specify a task startDate from backend

[pshdevs]

When we have for example 04/03/2020 as start date and create a task with start date after that (ie 04/06/2020), when we refresh and the gantt loads the info from our supplied url, we send something like this:

tasks: 
rows: [
	{
		id: "2f298a56-c71b-4fb9-abc1-80ed99164f4f"
		duration: 8
		durationUnit: "day"
		index: 1
		name: "Test 1"
		percentDone: 0
		startDate: "2020-06-04T13:29:35.000Z"
	}
]

it automatically updates to the project startDate. We would like to be able to set our tasks startDate to whatever future date we want. Why is it updating on initialize? Can we change this?

Thanks!

[mats]

If there is no dependency or constraint that "pins" a task to a position, by definition it starts at the project start date. You can use constraints, or manually scheduled mode to hard code tasks in a certain position.

[pshdevs]

Thank you! Will try that