How to select a task by knowing the task object?

[Greg Jimson]

Hi,

I'd like the select a taks in the UI from code. I know for example the
myTask.ID oder myTask.UniqueID.

Thanks for any advice
Greg

 

[Jim Aksel]

Is this what you are lookng for?

Dim x as long
x=the uniqueID of some task...
ActiveProject.Tasks.UniqueID(x).start

Here "start" is any valid task property such as start, finish, cost,
duration...
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[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I think you mean this:

Outlineshowalltasks
filterapply "All Tasks"
selectrow row:=thetask.id,rowrelative=false

The only alternative is to run to the visible tasks (usindg selectall, then
activeselection.tasks) and check the row of the task you need.

Hope this helps,

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

Jan,

This assumes that the project is sorted by task id.
I think using find is more reliable:

Find Field:="ID", Test:="equals", Value:=thetask.id, Next:=True,
MatchCase:=False

This will find the task within the project based on the id that you send it.
You can use name or other criteria as well.

-Jack Dahlgren

Hi,

I think you mean this:

Outlineshowalltasks
filterapply "All Tasks"
selectrow row:=thetask.id,rowrelative=false

The only alternative is to run to the visible tasks (usindg selectall,
then activeselection.tasks) and check the row of the task you need.

Hope this helps,

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hadn't thought of that! Excellent, I'll never forget it.

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Jan,

This assumes that the project is sorted by task id.
I think using find is more reliable:

Find Field:="ID", Test:="equals", Value:=thetask.id, Next:=True,
MatchCase:=False

This will find the task within the project based on the id that you send
it. You can use name or other criteria as well.

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

Glad I could help.
I can not accept complete credit for it because someone here in the
newsgroups pointed it out to me.
Unfortunately I can no longer remember who showed me that trick...

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Greg Jimson]

Hi,

thanks. I assume that this is not very fast, right?

Best
Greg

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Greg Jimson

Jan,

This assumes that the project is sorted by task id.
I think using find is more reliable:

Find Field:="ID", Test:="equals", Value:=thetask.id, Next:=True,
MatchCase:=False

This will find the task within the project based on the id that you send
it. You can use name or other criteria as well.

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Probably not if you have a project with 10000s of tasks but I never saw it
being very slow.