{"name":"taskDescription","title":"taskDescription","type":"command","url":"https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/taskDescription","revid":378417,"updated":"2026-04-04T08:44:52Z","groups":["Briefing"],"status":"ok","games":{"arma2":"1.00","arma2oa":"1.50","tkoh":"1.00","arma3":"0.50"},"since":"arma2 1.00","arma3_since":"0.50","description":"Returns the sub-parts of the task description.","syntaxes":[{"syntax":"taskDescription task","params":[{"name":"task","type":"Task","type_expr":"Task"}],"returns":{"type":"Array","type_expr":"Array","description":"with [description, title, waypoint]\n- description: String - title: String - waypoint: Waypoint","text":"Array with [description, title, waypoint]\n\n- description: String\n- title: String\n- waypoint: Waypoint"},"form":"unary","right":{"text":"task"}}],"examples":[{"code":["_taskDescArray = taskDescription _task;"]}],"see_also":["setSimpleTaskDescription","createSimpleTask"],"notes":[{"user":"Tajin","date":"2014-11-14T19:48:00Z","text":"Be careful if you want to use this to retrieve the title of a task.\nIf the task has no description set, then \"taskDescription\" will only return an array of empty Strings.\nTherefore always use setSimpleTaskDescription directly after creating a new task, even if you set the Description to \"\"."}]}