After releasing the new Gantt, releases can now have a manually set start date which is not determined from the first phase / feature.
However, you are not able to see this start date on the details drawer. That means when you are working from a report, you are not able to adjust the release start date and have to open the Gantt or Starter roadmap to change the date.
Ideally, the date would be available in the release details drawer
Release time frame | 1 month |
Just Launched! — Automatically Calculate Release Dates for Large Projects
Now you can automatically calculate when records in Aha! will start and end based on the date range of related work. This update includes showing the release start date on the release's details drawer.
Would be really nice to have this to be controllable when you set it up. Otherwise you're switching between views to do everything.
I have had a similar discussion with your support team and suggested the following:
With initiatives, you can set a duration start and end date OR you leave them blank and let the linked releases determine the start and end dates of your initiative. Why not do the same with releases?
You just provide a release start date field (we already have the release end date field!). Then leave it up to the user if they want to enter discrete dates OR leave them blank and the children (release phases/milestones/epics/stories...) under the release determine the start and end dates - same as initiatives and more consistent.