How to execute SBT plugin's tasks from within IntelliJ IDEA CE?

Question

I use IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 Community Edition with the Scala plugin 0.32.593.

What's the recommended way to execute a SBT plugin's tasks, say dependencyUpdates from sbt-updates?

Answer 1

In version 15 of IntelliJ IDEA, using Scala Plugin version 2.0, you can run SBT tasks by adding a run configuration.

First add a new run configuration by clicking on Run -> Edit Configurations. Then click the + button to add a new configuration and choose SBT Task form the list

Now provide the list of tasks separated by space in Tasks input box: