How to determine fields for addTask
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Summary
The addTask action can be used to add arbitrary tasks to a job. However, you must know the parameter fields that each task uses and needs. Normally, the task provider doesn't document this. However, they can be discovered. We have documented some examples already - see Examples for AddTask action. If the task you want is not already documented, then you need to discover the fields needed. There are 2 ways to discover these fields.
Using exportPlan on an existing plan that has been created manually through the UI.
Using browser tools to discover fields from the UI. I use Crome → Developer Tools to look at the request details when you save a task from the UI.
Steps using exportPlan
Steps using UI
Alternative for getting field names
An alternative approach you can use is to use your browsers Inspect Element support to get the name of fields from the UI. Click on the input field, right click -> Inspect Element and look for the name of the field.