This option lets you keep the same time interval between the new project’s Estimated Start Date and its tasks’ dates as the ones you have in the template project. For instance, if a task starts 6 business days after the project Estimated Start Date in your template, the Estimated Start Date of the corresponding task in the new project will be automatically adjusted to start 6 business days after the new project’s Estimated Start Date. This helps you keep your time-based structures intact.
A project template must have an Estimated Start Date and you must also specify one for your new project in order to have AceProject schedule your new project tasks automatically through the “Adjust task dates based on project start date” option. However, we recommend you leave the new project’s Estimated End Date blank initially. Once the new project has been created, you can then return to the Edit Project page to specify the new project’s Estimated End Date based on the Estimated End Date of its last task.