This feature is available only in Project KickStart Professional.

In many projects, before you can start working on some tasks, you need to complete others. For example, before you can build the second story of a house, you need to build the first floor. To represent these types of related tasks, you link them in the Gantt chart.

Links show which tasks depend on others to start or finish, even if you schedule them for the same starting date. You can also set the lead time for linked tasks. That means you need to wait a certain amount of time after completing one task before you can start the next one. For example, after applying the first coat of paint, you might need to wait a few hours before applying the second coat.

Project KickStart Pro does not assume that you want to link all of the tasks in a serial manner (one after the other) when you get to the Gantt chart.  Indeed many users want that behavior and many do not.

To accomodate both types of users, you can set whether you want the program to Autolink tasks. In the Tools menu, select "Autolink tasks".  Thereafter, in all your projects, when you get to the Gantt chart for the first time, the tasks will be linked in a serial mannor.