---
name: "setSimpleTaskDescription"
type: command
status: ok
groups: ["Briefing"]
arma3_since: "0.50"
locality: {"argument": null, "effect": null, "server_exec": false}
source: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setSimpleTaskDescription
revid: 330122
updated: 2022-08-21T19:56:15Z
---

# setSimpleTaskDescription

*Command · Briefing · Arma 3 v0.50 · introduced in Arma 2 v1.00*

## Description

Attach descriptions to the simple task.

## Syntax

```sqf
task setSimpleTaskDescription [description, descriptionShort, descriptionHUD]
```

**Parameters:**

- `task`: [Task](../topics/Task.md)
- `description`: [String](../topics/String.md) - task description
- `descriptionShort`: [String](../topics/String.md) - task title
- `descriptionHUD`: [String](../topics/String.md) - task waypoint description

**Returns:** [Nothing](../topics/Nothing.md)

## Examples

### Example 1

```sqf
myTask setSimpleTaskDescription ["Today you have to kill Spongebob", "Kill Spongebob", "There he is!"];
```

## See also

[taskDescription](../commands/taskDescription.md) · Tasks · [createSimpleTask](../commands/createSimpleTask.md) · [removeSimpleTask](../commands/removeSimpleTask.md) · [setSimpleTaskDestination](../commands/setSimpleTaskDestination.md) · [setTaskState](../commands/setTaskState.md) · [setTaskResult](../commands/setTaskResult.md) · [taskState](../commands/taskState.md)

<sub>Source: [BI Community Wiki — setSimpleTaskDescription](https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setSimpleTaskDescription) (revision 330122).</sub>