**As** an instance admin/project admin/project manager
**I want to** be able to turn off Begin of the insertionauto-switch toEnd of the insertion automatic scheduling
**so that** tasks keep the exact date i entered for them even if Begin of the insertionIEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion iEnd of the deletion add a child ticket to them

Begin of the insertion**Context**

Since the introduction of scheduling modes (automatic/manual), all new work packages are now in manual scheduling mode. Normally, manually-scheduled work packages don't get automatically switched to automatic, but there are some cases. Notably, when a first child is added. In this case, if the parent already had dates and this differs with the dates of the (newly-added) first child, the parent's dates are overridden.

This might not always be desired. Indeed, we even had a user file a bug about it: ##66243. We plan to go around that with a confirmation dialog, because we cannot always infer user intent: <mention class="mention" data-id="66243" data-type="work_package" data-text="##66243">##66243</mention>&nbsp;

However, we think an admin setting could also be interesting for instances where someone never wants an automatic switch to automatic scheduling.

End of the insertion **Acceptance criteria**

* Begin of the insertionIn Administration → Work packages → General, the user has a new checkbox:

* Label: &quot;Never automatically enable automatic scheduling&quot;

* Caption: &quot;A manually scheduled work package will never be switchedEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion User is ableEnd of the deletion to Begin of the deletion turn offEnd of the deletion automatic Begin of the insertionscheduling, even if a predecessor or a child is added to it.&quot;


End of the insertion Begin of the deletion scheduling


End of the deletion **Technical notes**

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