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Task Start and End Date

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September 9, 2022
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Hi,

Wondering if there is an answer / solution for this: When setting a Start Date for a Task and setting it to a date (i.e., Sep 9) - is there a way to set the the Due Date to the same Date (i.e., Sep 9), without using 0 Days as the Task Duration? We had a template setup that was working this way, but now see that using the same template, it is pushing the Due Date to a day later. Thoughts? I.e., Start Date = 09/12/22 and Due Date should be 09/12/22 (but system is making the due date 09/13/22)

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Best answer by skyehansen

As far as troubleshooting goes, the easiest place to start is by making sure the start and end times are within what your instance as defined as a day. If for example, your task was set to start at 10AM instead of 9AM, you might end up edging into the next day.

You often can't see start / end TIMES unless you create a view that specifies this formatting, or unless you go to the task itself and look in task details for this information.

skyehansen

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As far as troubleshooting goes, the easiest place to start is by making sure the start and end times are within what your instance as defined as a day. If for example, your task was set to start at 10AM instead of 9AM, you might end up edging into the next day.

You often can't see start / end TIMES unless you create a view that specifies this formatting, or unless you go to the task itself and look in task details for this information.

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JulieHandAuthor

Thank you so much! I tried to create a view to show the time, but it isn't available (that I can see), but I could see planned start times on the Task Details. Thank you again!

skyehansen

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I think you'll find that if you select that column in your view and click on the Advanced Options link, it will provide you with a field format dropdown that you can use to select any of the available date+time combinations. For workflows that are constantly looking at the time, we make this view available to the users instead of whatever they get as standard out-of-box views.