Hi,

I am trying to get the properties of a Task using the getField method. I
choose not to get the property from the Task directly (eg.
Task.PercentComplete) because I don't know which field I want to
retrieve until runtime.
The problem I'm facing is that, unlike the second method (getting the
property directly), the getField method returns a formatted value i.e.
Task.getField(PjField.pjTaskPercentComplete) returns "12.5%" rather than
just "12.5"

It is the same case for dates. getField returns the dates formatted
according to the mask the user has chosen. Is there a way to use
getField to return the "native" task property (like Task.PercentComplete
or Task.Start)?

Your help is appreciated.

--Zahid.

Val("12.5%") returns the number 12.5

save the date information into a date variable and you can reformat the date
into anything you want using Format$(date,"Long Date")

See help on conversion functions and Format for other methods.

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