testing for existing task?

[Matthias Crowe]

Hi there!
I'm working on a syncronisation between project and another system.
The problem I have is to test wether a task exist or not. And that only with
the field "name".
Is it possible? And when: how?

Another question:
I recieve an error while using this code:

Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Finish", oTask.getProjectEnd, "Name",
oTask.getID)
Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Start", oTask.getProjectStart,
"Name", oTask.getID)
Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Resourcenames",
oTask.getProjectResponse, "Name", oTask.getID)
Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Duration", oTask.getProjectDuration,
"Name", oTask.getID)

oTask in my own object which contains the name, start, finish, resourcename
and the duration.
the first two lines: no problem, but in the third line (setting the
resourcenames) I get the error.
If I delete the problem line, the code works. Does anyone know why and would
tell me?

Thanks for all ideas and replies.

Greetings
Matthias

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I run through the tasks with a for each loop and compare the name
HTH

 

[Mark Durrenberger]

Another thought.
If you put the Project Unique ID in your other database, you can test on
UID...

Mark


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[Earl Lewis]

Matthias,

Testing for a match on name is very risky and will likely lead to problems unless you know with a high degree of certainty that no two projects will ever have the same name in a task. Or for that matter that no one project ever repeats the name for a task - under different outline levels for instance. What about "Training" for example? I could see this appearing several times in one plan as well as repeating across plans.

Bottom line - try to use the UID as suggested by Mark.

Earl
Hi there!
I'm working on a syncronisation between project and another system.
The problem I have is to test wether a task exist or not. And that only with
the field "name".
Is it possible? And when: how?

Another question:
I recieve an error while using this code:

Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Finish", oTask.getProjectEnd, "Name",
oTask.getID)
Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Start", oTask.getProjectStart,
"Name", oTask.getID)
Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Resourcenames",
oTask.getProjectResponse, "Name", oTask.getID)
Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Duration", oTask.getProjectDuration,
"Name", oTask.getID)

oTask in my own object which contains the name, start, finish, resourcename
and the duration.
the first two lines: no problem, but in the third line (setting the
resourcenames) I get the error.
If I delete the problem line, the code works. Does anyone know why and would
tell me?

Thanks for all ideas and replies.

Greetings
Matthias

 

[Earl Lewis]

Matthias,

On your other question: what is oTask.getProjectResponse doing in your third call? Is this a custom method of your oTask object? If so, I would look at it and make sure that it's doing what it's supposed to and returning the string you want.

Also, I think the field name you want is "Resource Names" not "Resourcenames".

Hope that helps.

Earl
Hi there!
I'm working on a syncronisation between project and another system.
The problem I have is to test wether a task exist or not. And that only with
the field "name".
Is it possible? And when: how?

Another question:
I recieve an error while using this code:

Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Finish", oTask.getProjectEnd, "Name",
oTask.getID)
Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Start", oTask.getProjectStart,
"Name", oTask.getID)
Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Resourcenames",
oTask.getProjectResponse, "Name", oTask.getID)
Call oProject.Parent.setMatchingField("Duration", oTask.getProjectDuration,
"Name", oTask.getID)

oTask in my own object which contains the name, start, finish, resourcename
and the duration.
the first two lines: no problem, but in the third line (setting the
resourcenames) I get the error.
If I delete the problem line, the code works. Does anyone know why and would
tell me?

Thanks for all ideas and replies.

Greetings
Matthias