Hello,

Our projects tend to fall into a small number of categories, so our goal is to create project templates and reuse them whenever a new project starts.

The workflow we would like to achieve is:

1. Create and maintain a project template.

2. Copy the template when a new project is created.

3. Specify the new project's start date.

4. Automatically adjust all work package start and finish dates while preserving the relative schedule structure and durations.

We tried using the excel sheet(https://github.com/opf/OpenProjectExcel) but changing the start and finish dates requires updating the exact duration value as well. And we found that the duration field takes into account holidays and weekends which makes it much more cumbersome(because we can't just bulk edit start/finish dates and then update the packages).

Our main question is:

Is there a recommended approach for copying a new project from a template and automatically shifting all work package dates based on a new project start date?

Thank you!

Best regards,