Stop and Resume a Task

A tasks’ stop date is the date that it should (or did) end. Sometimes, a task has to be stopped temporarily and then resumed later. Microsoft Project can calculate stop dates, or let users enter them manually.

Working with Stopped and Resumed Tasks

The STOP and RESUME properties exposed by the Tsk class are used to read or write a task’s stop and resume date:

• STOP: the date a task stops (Date).
• RESUME: the data and time a task restarts (Date).

Microsoft Project view of Stop and Resume Dates

To see a task’s stop and resume dates:

1. In the Task Entry form, on the Inset menu, select Column.
2. Add the Stop and Resume columns.

The Stop and Resume columns in Microsoft Project

Getting Stop and Resume Dates

The stop and resume dates are not available if the task has never stopped. For date values equal to NA, Aspose.Tasks take the value “1/1/2000” if you’re using the evaluation version. When fully licensed, Aspose.Tasks uses DateTime.MinValue for NA values. The following examples display’s the stop and resume dates for all the tasks in a project.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-tasks/Aspose.Tasks-for-Java
String dataDir = Utils.getDataDir(StopAndResumeTask.class);

Project project = new Project(dataDir + "input.mpp");

// Create a ChildTasksCollector instance
ChildTasksCollector collector = new ChildTasksCollector();

// Collect all the tasks from RootTask using TaskUtils
TaskUtils.apply(project.getRootTask(), collector, 0);

// Stop and Resume
for (Task tsk : collector.getTasks()) {
    if (tsk.get(Tsk.STOP).toString() == "1/1/2000")
        System.out.println("NA");
    else
        System.out.println(tsk.get(Tsk.STOP).toString());
    if (tsk.get(Tsk.RESUME).toString() == "1/1/2000")
        System.out.println("NA");
    else
        System.out.println(tsk.get(Tsk.RESUME).toString());
}