How To Retrieve Contact Names from Schedule+ Tasks

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The methods below show different ways of processing Schedule+ Tasks. The method you use depends on whether you know that all of your tasks have Contacts associated with them.

Method 1

The following works only if every task has a Contact. If you get the error, "Function argument value, type, or count is invalid," on the GetRows method call, then you know that not every task has a contact, so you have to process the tasks row by row instead, as shown in Method 2.

* BEGIN CODE
   oSched = CREATEOBJECT("SchedulePlus.Application")
   oSched.Logon
   mySched = oSched.ScheduleLogged
   myTasks = mySched.SingleTasks
   IF myTasks.Rows > 0  && Make sure there are tasks to process
      myContacts = mySched.Contacts
      aTasks = myTasks.getrows(100,"text","contactitemid")
      FOR x = 1 TO ALEN(aTasks,1)  && process the rows in the array
         * The following line limits the Contacts table to the given
         * criteria:  ItemId = <contactitemid from the task>
         myContacts.SetRestriction("itemid",aTasks(x,2),"==")
         oneContact = myContacts.Item
         ?"Task Description: ", aTasks(x,1)
         ?"Contact First Name: ", oneContact.GetProperty("FirstName")
         ?"Contact Last Name: ", oneContact.GetProperty("LastName")
      ENDFOR
   ENDIF
   oSched.Logoff
   * END CODE
				

Method 2

The following method processes every task in the Schedule+ Task table. It verifies that there is a contact associated with the task before attempting to retrieve the contact information.

   * BEGIN CODE
   oSched = CREATEOBJECT("SchedulePlus.Application")
   oSched.Logon
   mySched = oSched.ScheduleLogged
   myTasks = mySched.SingleTasks
   myContacts = mySched.Contacts
   DO WHILE !myTasks.IsEndofTable
      oneTask = myTasks.Item
      ?"Description: ", oneTask.GetProperty("Text")
      * We must verify that there is a contact for the task; otherwise,
      * the GetProperty call will cause an error.
      IF TYPE('oneTask.GetProperty("ContactItemID")') = "C"
         * The following line limits the Contacts table to the given
         * criteria:  ItemId = <contactitemid from the task>
         myContacts.SetRestriction("itemid",;
            oneTask.GetProperty("contactitemid"),"==")
         oneContact = myContacts.Item
         ?"Contact Name: "
         ??ALLTRIM(oneContact.GetProperty("FirstName")) + " "
         ??ALLTRIM(oneContact.GetProperty("LastName"))
      ELSE
         ?"Contact Name: No Contact For This Task"
      ENDIF
      myTasks.Skip(1)
   ENDDO
   oSched.Logoff
   * END CODE