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Hey I also found a need where it would be nice to have a function that would get a TaskID of a task by its name or from dropdown selection.

Another question.  Does every task that start get its own thread.  In other words, if two tasks do a Start Task on the same task, will they each get their copy and not crash together in case the local variables were to have differing values?Thanks.

What is a good way to return a value from another task started with Start Task?The only way I could see is creating a global variable that I check in the calling task but isn't there a more elegant way?How about like the Run Program dialog and have a decision of what to do if the return value is not...

Ok. I did do something kind of like that but used different variables.  I didn't know if the LastError... variables were writable.Thanks for tip, Oleg.

If there are certain conditions in my task, I would like to manually raise an actual error that would stop the script or run a error handler and pass the error variables to it.It would be nice if I wrote an ERROR type message to the log with Log Message that an error would be raised and the task pro...

Believe it or not I just used this today.  However, I see there has to be a decimal to hex conversion of the {TaskID} which can be a challenge in RT as I see it.  It would be nice to have this hex value of the {TaskID} already in a variable for direct use of reading the log file.-David W.