Share Your Tasks That Help You Use Tasker!

 

This is going to be a very important and useful thread. It will be linked in the sidebar. It will help thousands of people.

 

Throughout the years many folks have created Tasks that are 'Assistant' Tasks, or 'Helper' Tasks, or 'Test' Tasks and Tools, and here we're going to compile them all in one thread, as many as possible.

 

So please post any Tasks you have that help or assist you with any aspect of Tasker and/or its plugins. For example I created the UI Query Task/Tool a while back, and still use it all the time.

 

As replies to this thread come in I'll be posting the links and descriptions up here in the OP. And now I shall put forth a few Tasks that I've found to be so very useful:

 

• AutoInput UI Query Test Task/Tool - helps you 'see' exactly what AutoInput 'sees' when it looks at the screen. Helps to easily find text, element id's, coordinates, etc.

 

• AutoNotification - View All AN Variables - Since AutoNotification generates a massive amount of variables and values - you'd previously need an awful lot of Flash actions and time trying to find what's in a notification. This gives you the values of all the AutoNotification Variables.

 

• Show All Data In the %evtprm() Array - Many Event Profiles in Tasker pass additional data into the linked Task in an array named %evtprm() - but it's not always clear how much data there is or what the values are. This Task gives you a quick way to have a look.

 

• Tasker Scene Manager - Generates a simple list menu of all currently active Scenes and whether they are created/visible/hidden/etc - very helpful if you have a lot of Project Folders and Scenes, since some/many could be active without you even realizing it ;) Link to reddit thread. related to this Task/tool.

 

• View All Tasker Globals - Ever have the urge to see every built-in Tasker Global and its value in a single glance? This Tasks gives you most of them.

 

• View All Hidden Project/Profile/Task Vars - In more recent versions of Tasker, a new class of variables have been added, whose scope is limited to the Project, Profile, or Task they are in. One issue with this however is that to see their names and values you usually have to look in many different places. This Task finds them and lists their names, values, and where they are!

 

• Query All Installed Plugins - Ever wonder exactly which Tasker plugins are installed on all your device(s) at any given time? This Task will generate the lists you need :)

 

• Quickly Edit Any Task - this quick menu helps avoid the time-consuming process of having to open Tasker, find the Task, open it to edit it, save it, save Tasker, exit Tasker,. etc by instead taking you directly to the Task Edit Window! (added 08/17/21 more info)

 

• Tasker Permissions Checker - Have Tasker Check for Non-ADB Permisions - A Task that use the little known "Ask Permissions" Action to go through a list of permissions that can be granted to Tasker without ADB. (added 08/17/21 more info)

 

• Quick Color Picker - Use this to quickly pick colors for use in Tasker Comments, Labels, and Anchors or anywhere you need a hex color! It uses all built-in Tasker Actions, no plugins required. (added 08/18/21 more info

 

• Get All Task Names in a Tasker Project - This Task will return the Task names for any given Project in Tasker. Can be useful if you have a Project with a lot of Tasks and just want a log/listing of them. (added 10/18/21 more info

 

• Tasker's Main Menu - A Map / Diagram / Flowchart - Tasker's main 3-dot menu has gotten quite a few options added over time, and it's sometimes confusing to remember under which sub-menu a certain option exists that you're looking for. This diagram should help :)

 

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EDIT: Any "tips or tricks" for using Tasker can & should also be included here. For example - adding something like IF %caller() ~ ui to any Action (typically Variable Set for test values) is a great way to have those Actions only run when the Task is being run inside the Task Edit window for testing purposes, without having to power Actions on or off :)