Begin Date

This field identifies a begin date for a particular user assignment.  This is a required field.

When an assignment is given a begin date, time and expense entry will be constrained by this date (regardless of the Enforce Project / Task Dates project profile setting).

Users cannot have two assignments with overlapping date ranges (on the same project or task).

When using the Assign with Grid option, the begin and end dates are automatically supplied (and align with the beginning and end of the grid cell time periods, e.g. month).

For reference purposes, the project's begin date is also displayed.

Note that if the Link Dates to Project / Task Dates option is checked, the Assignment dates are derived from the project (or task) dates (depending on whether the assignments are managed at the project or task level for this project) and cannot be directly entered on an Assignment.