Is summary task collapsed?

[Yoav]

Is there an indication whether the summary task is collapsed or expended?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Select the summary task and note the ID; select the task below and note the
ID; if they are not consequtive it is collapsed
HTH
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[John]

Is there an indication whether the summary task is collapsed or expended?

Yoav,
When you say "indication", I assume you are asking if there is an object
property indicating if the summary is collapsed or not. No, there is
not. However, you can get that information indirectly by using an active
selection on the current view and then looping though the selected tasks
while tracking the task ID from summary line to summary line. If ID
values are missing, you know the summary is collapsed.

John
Project MVP

 

[Yoav]

John,
Thanks for the answer.
What if there are external tasks? those tasks are not shown in a Master
project.

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

I believe that external tasks still take up a line number so if you notice a
gap you can find check the next sequential ID task and if it is external then
go to the next

if task.external then
....


Jack Dahlgren

 

[John]

John,
Thanks for the answer.
What if there are external tasks? those tasks are not shown in a Master
project.

Yoav,
You're welcome.

Unfortunately the option to show external predecessors and successors
(Tools/Options/View tab) is not consistently reliable. Sometimes the
ghost tasks will appear in a master file and sometimes they won't.
However, Jack's response provides the answer.

John
Project MVP