Managing Estimated and Milestone Tasks
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]In Microsoft Project, milestones are used to monitor a project’s progress. Milestones are crucial points in the project. Typically, a milestone’s a task with no duration but any task can be marked as a milestone. Aspose.Tasks helps you manage milestones.
Working with Milestones
The Task class exposes the IsEstimated and IsMilestone properties to manage estimated and milestone tasks:
- IsEstimated: set and get whether a task is estimated (boolean).
- IsMilestone: set and get whether a task is a milestone (boolean).
Viewing Estimated and Milestone Tasks in Microsoft Project
To see whether a task is estimated or marked as a milestone in Microsoft Project double-click a task in the Task Entry form.
Marking an estimated task as a milestone in Microsoft Project
Finding out Whether a Task is Estimated or a Milestone
The following code examples show how to find out whether a task is estimated or a milestone using Aspose.Tasks.
1// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-tasks/Aspose.Tasks-for-Java
2// The path to the documents directory.
3String dataDir = Utils.getDataDir(EstimatedMilestoneTasks.class);
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5Project project = new Project(dataDir + "input.mpp");
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7// Create a ChildTasksCollector instance
8ChildTasksCollector collector = new ChildTasksCollector();
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10// Collect all the tasks from RootTask using TaskUtils
11TaskUtils.apply(project.getRootTask(), collector, 0);
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13// Parse through all the collected tasks
14for (Task tsk : collector.getTasks()) {
15 String strED = tsk.get(Tsk.IS_EFFORT_DRIVEN) != null ? "EffortDriven" : "Non-EffortDriven";
16 String strCrit = tsk.get(Tsk.IS_CRITICAL) != null ? "Critical" : "Non-Critical";
17 System.out.println(strED);
18 System.out.println(strCrit);
19}