[dal71]

Originally Posted by whpalmer4

I'm not sure that I agree this is an abuse of the start date. After all, a start date is just a way of signifying that you don't wish to be shown this action or project until some point in the future. Is that not what you are doing?

I call it an abuse only because the software seems to want it to mean that you *can't* start it until some date in the future; presumably that is why the designers consider such things "unavailable", and treat them identically with actions that really can't be started because they sit behind incomplete actions in sequential projects.

But, yes, my use is similar to what you say. Only for me it is more like I sometimes/usually don't want to see these things until a few days from now. But I might want to, and I want to do that without seeing things truly unavailable because they depend upon another action that hasn't yet taken place...

Thanks for your thoughts!