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miteshpatel412
Mar 27, 2024Copper Contributor
Unique identifier for tasks in Project on the Web
Hi, my team and I have heavily been using Microsoft Project on the web (via Teams and web). One question that does come up, how can we find unique IDs for each task? This would be highly effectiv...
psawyer
Iron Contributor
If you are looking for something in a report you can pull the ID for the item in the table, but its not a friendly or sequential name. I would also like something the equivalent of an activity ID.
miteshpatel412
Mar 28, 2024Copper Contributor
psawyer Yes when I export I have seen that task identifier but it isn’t unique. Once you change around tasks the Id changes with it. Seems it’s based on just order of tasks, which doesn’t help for record keeping of previously executed work.
Hopefully this changes if there’s no option, would really help. It’s interesting because the desktop version of Project does provide unique identifiers I believe.