Thank you this worked! I pasted the text above into a column in a custom Program View and it yielded the correct results. I assume this would also work in a report as you suggest.  The only (minor!) issue is that I cannot then sort the dates from earliest to latest in the program view. I think that'...

Hi - I want to create a Program View that displays the planned start date of the first task in every project's timeline. I cannot use Project Planned Start Date because many of the projects have cross-project predecessors, so the Project Planned Start Date is different from Task #1's Planned Start D...

thanks this is also a potential solution! My only concern about moving the hours (as opposed to deleting) is it puts the onus on the user to correct their mistake, which I suspect they'll put-off doing until someone tells them to. It would also allow them to submit their weekly timesheet with hours ...

thank you this worked! 

I should have mentioned: we have Fusion. So maybe a Fusion scenario that automatically deletes time logged on the project and tags the user to a comment asking them to re-log the time to a task. 

In the WF instance I manage, users are allowed to log time directly on projects. However there is one project where we only want time logged to tasks. Any ideas for limiting the objects users can log time to (in this case: tasks on a specified project), when the instance is configured to allow time ...