How can I specify a category for a Gradle task?

Question

I am writing a Gradle task in Intellij IDEA. I have noticed that in the Gradle window, the tasks appear under folders like so:

I am wondering, how can you give a task a 'category' so that it appears in a folder as shown in the screenshot?

All the tasks I create usually end up in other. I am also writing a custom plugin and want it to appear under a 'folder' name of my choosing. but I assume it'll be the same answer for when writing a task.

Answer 1

You just need to set the group property of your task. Eg (from http://mrhaki.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/gradle-goodness-adding-tasks-to.html)

task publish(type: Copy) {     from "sources"     into "output" }  configure(publish) {        group = 'Publishing'     description = 'Publish source code to output directory' } 

Answer 2

Or, shorter syntax:

task publish(type: Copy) {   group = "Publishing"   description = "Publish source code to output directory"   from "sources"   into "output" }