Order Tasks

You can organize tasks in a specific order to suit the user's needs and preferences. A task can be moved under another task (parent task) and/or move to be after another task (previous).

To move a task, send an authenticated POST request to the following URL with these special parameters:

The parent parameter: Specifies the ID of the parent task under which the new task should be inserted; omitting this parameter places the task in the top level of the list.
The previous parameter: Specifies the ID of the task after which the new task should be inserted; omitting this parameter places the task in the first position of the sublist.

The URL is of the form:

https://www.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/taskListID/tasks/taskID/move?parent=parentTaskID&previous=previousTaskID

With the appropriate values in place of taskListID, taskID, parentTaskID and previousTaskID.

Note: The special taskListID value @default can be used to refer to the authenticated user's default task list.

Upon success, the server responds with an HTTP 200 OK status code and the new task data.

Example

Protocol

Request:

POST /tasks/v1/lists/@default/tasks/taskID/move?parent=parentTaskID&previous=previousTaskID

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
  id: "taskID",
  kind: "tasks#task",
  selfLink: "https://www.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/@default/tasks/taskID",
  etag: "newETag",
  title: "New Task",
  notes: "Please complete me",
  updated: "2010-10-15T11:30:00.000Z",
  ...,
  parent: "parentTaskID",
  position: "newPosition",
  ...
}

Java

import com.google.api.services.tasks.v1.Tasks.TasksOperations.Move;
...

Move move = service.tasks.move("@default", "taskID");
move.setParent("parentTaskID");
move.setPrevious("previousTaskID");
Task result = move.execute();

// Print the new values.
System.out.println(result.getParent());
System.out.println(result.getPosition());

Python

result = service.tasks().move(tasklist='@default', task='taskID', parent='parentTaskID', previous='previousTaskID').execute()

# Print the new values.
print result['parent']
print result['position']

PHP

$result = $service->moveTasks('taskID', '@default', null, 'parentTaskID', 'previousTaskID');

/*
 * Print the new values.
 */
echo $result->getParent();
echo $result->getPosition();

.NET

Task result = service.Tasks.Move("@default", "taskID",
                                 parent: "parentTaskID", previous: "previousTaskID").Fetch();
// Print the new values.
Console.WriteLine(result.Parent);
Console.WriteLine(result.Position);

Note: The parent and previous parameters can also be used while creating a new task.

Order Tasks Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences.