---
title: "Get-Tasks"
slug: "get-tasks"
updated: 2025-07-16T12:15:28Z
published: 2025-07-16T12:15:28Z
canonical: "help.agilityblue.com/get-tasks"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Get-Tasks

## Summary

Retrieves a collection of task objects.

```powershell
Get-Tasks
    -Top
    -Skip
    -Filter
    -OrderBy
```

Returns a collection object with the following properties:

| Property | Type | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Collection | Collection of [task](https://apidocs.agilityblue.com/#7188f9cc-69d1-4f96-818f-bb8b2d08e739) objects | The collection of entries retrieved after `top`, `skip`, `filter`, and `order by` parameters were applied. |
| Top | Int32 | The top parameter value that was used. Useful while paging data. |
| Skip | Int32 | The skip parameter value that was used. Useful while paging data. |
| TotalCount | Int32 | The total count of records available after any filtering was applied. Useful while paging data. |

> [!NOTE]
> Additional Details
> 
> Check out the [Concepts: Tasks & Task Forms](/v1/docs/scripting-tutorials-tasks-and-task-forms) article for more detailed information about tasks.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required? | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Top | Int32 | No, Defaults to `40` | Total number of entries to retrieve. Max is `1000`. |
| Skip | Int32 | No, Defaults to `0` | How many entries should be skipped within the collection. Used for paging the results. |
| Filter | String | No | An OData 4 string that can be used for filtering the collection. |
| OrderBy | String | No | An OData 4 string that can be used for sorting the collection by specific fields. |

## Examples

### Get a collection of tasks

```powershell
# Retrieve one record from the collection, since we're only interested in the total count.
$collectionWrapper = Get-Tasks -Top 1

Write-Output "There are $($collectionWrapper.TotalCount) task(s) in the workspace"
```

```Execution
There are 65,300 task(s) in the workspace
```