By default, each project is scheduled as soon as possible. Sometimes, however, a project may be postponed, or it may be necessary to plan a project that is due to start sometime in the future. We assume in this section that you have a project hierarchy already entered and that you wish to schedule it on a date in the future, say Jan 1 2010. The root project of the hierarchy is called Future Project in our example
While there is more than one way of doing this, we recommend the following method for its flexibility:
create a milestone called Future Project start milestone. The milestone should be outside the Future Project hierarchy, and preferably just above it.
create a dependency from the milestone to Future Project
set a constraint on the milestone to start on Jan 1, 2010.