# Can i re-use the documenation extension for tasks?

**URL:** <https://platform.jetbrains.com/t/can-i-re-use-the-documenation-extension-for-tasks/3847>\
**Category:** IntelliJ Platform\
**Created:** [March 12, 2026, 9:22am UTC](https://platform.jetbrains.com/t/can-i-re-use-the-documenation-extension-for-tasks/3847 "2026-03-12T09:22:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elhanan.Maayan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Elhanan.Maayan](https://platform.jetbrains.com/u/Elhanan.Maayan)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 9:22am UTC](https://platform.jetbrains.com/t/can-i-re-use-the-documenation-extension-for-tasks/3847/1 "2026-03-12T09:22:17Z")

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the tasks managment can show tasks as a documenation, i’d like to reuse that for my plugin

but i get warnings when i use this code. (but the TaskDocumentationProvider also extends DocumentProvider)  
`final PsiManager instance = PsiManager.getInstance(project);`  
`final TaskPsiElement element = new TaskPsiElement(instance, task);`  
`// Reuses IntelliJ’s exact documentation UI`  
`DocumentationManager instance1 = DocumentationManager.getInstance(project);`  
`instance1.showJavaDocInfo(element, null);`

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**Author:** ![yuriy.artamonov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/platform.jetbrains.com/yuriy.artamonov/32/48_2.png) [@yuriy.artamonov](https://platform.jetbrains.com/u/yuriy.artamonov)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 9:53am UTC](https://platform.jetbrains.com/t/can-i-re-use-the-documenation-extension-for-tasks/3847/2 "2026-03-12T09:53:51Z")

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> [@Elhanan.Maayan](#):
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> but i get warnings

What kind of warnings do you see?