Please help me.

[owen]

Please someone answer my question about summary tasks, it must be so very
simple but just isn't documented anywhere. I have spent hours trawling
documentation and the internet but to no avail. All I want to do is create
a summary task via the PDS. The ProjectTasksCreate method seems to be the
thing to use but it reports an error if you don't include children under the
task. But HOW can I do this?

Please I am begging you. Somebody. Anybody. Just tell me how I'm
supposed to create a summary task using the PDS? I'm tearing my hair out,
here.

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Thanks!
Owen

 

[BJ]

The *only* way to create a summary task in Project is to create two tasks
and indent one of them (OutlineIndent).

HTH

 

[owen]

The *only* way to create a summary task in Project is to create two tasks
and indent one of them (OutlineIndent).

HTH

And how do I do this using the PDS please? I need an example.

Owen

 

[Roland]

I haven't actually tried this, but I believe simply adding a task ID to the
successors/predecessors field will do the trick... (or you might want to use
the respective UID fields)

 

[JackD]

That would only create a dependency, not change a task into a summary task.
I'm not a PDS expert so I can't tell anyone how to do this through the PDS.
It is possible that it is impossible.

-Jack

 

[Steve Kearon]

I've never used PDS (I didn't even know what it was till today!), but from
MSDN info on ProjectCreateTasks I see that one of the supported task details
is the OutlineLevel.

Assuming PDS works like importing a text file, or MPX, etc, then I'd *guess*
that to add two tasks to a project (one being a subtask of the other) you
simply need to specify the OutlineLevel of each task. Assuming the summary
is a top-level task, then I'd guess OutlineLevel of 1 for the summary, and
OutlineLevel of 2 for the real task.

Hope this helps

Steve Kearon