{"name":"taskDescription","operator":null,"title":"taskDescription","type":"command","url":"https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/taskDescription","revid":378417,"updated":"2026-04-04T08:44:52Z","groups":["Briefing"],"status":"ok","replaced_by":[],"games":[{"game":"arma2","name":"Arma 2","version":"1.00"},{"game":"arma2oa","name":"Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead","version":"1.50"},{"game":"tkoh","name":"Take On Helicopters","version":"1.00"},{"game":"arma3","name":"Arma 3","version":"0.50"}],"since":{"game":"arma2","name":"Arma 2","version":"1.00"},"arma3_since":"0.50","branch":null,"locality":{"argument":null,"effect":null,"server_exec":false},"exec":null,"description":"Returns the sub-parts of the task description.","syntaxes":[{"syntax":"taskDescription task","since":null,"effect":null,"exec":null,"params":[{"name":"task","type":"Task","optional":false,"default":null,"description":null,"types":["Task"],"since":null,"text":"task: Task"}],"returns":{"type":"Array with [description, title, waypoint]","types":["Array"],"description":"description: String - title: String - waypoint: Waypoint","text":"Array with [description, title, waypoint]\n- description: String\n- title: String\n- waypoint: Waypoint"},"form":"unary","operator":null,"left":null,"right":{"text":"task","types":["Task"]}}],"examples":[{"text":"```sqf\n_taskDescArray = taskDescription _task;\n```","code":["_taskDescArray = taskDescription _task;"]}],"multiplayer":null,"problems":null,"aliases":[],"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.\n\nTherefore always use setSimpleTaskDescription directly after creating a new task, even if you set the Description to \"\"."}],"categories":["Arma 2: New Scripting Commands","Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead: Scripting Commands","Arma 2: Scripting Commands","Arma 3: Scripting Commands","Command Group: Briefing","Introduced with Arma 2 version 1.00","Scripting Commands","Take On Helicopters: Scripting Commands"]}