Can I get the last inserted IDs from an INSERT SELECT?

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
I'm new to CI and so far it's been great. I apologize if I give too much information, I just want to include everything on the first try.

Brief:
Purpose: Project Management software.

1) There are templates for each project type.
These consist of three tables: templates, templates_tasks, templates_tasks_jobs

2) When a new project is added, the existing template will be copied to the actual project tables:
projects, projects_tasks, projects_tasks_jobs

3) Each template has multiple tasks, and each task has multiple jobs. If it helps to give an example:

Project: Website
Task1: Design
Task1Job1: Research
Task1Job2: Wireframe
etc.
Task2: Build
Task2Job1: Build session 1
Task2Job2: Build session 2
etc.

I add the project from a form. I know the template_id and project_id so to add the tasks:

Code:

$query = $this->db->query("INSERT INTO projects_tasks (`project_id`, `name`, `description`, `notes`)
                           (SELECT $project_id, `name`, `description`, `notes`
                           FROM templates_tasks
                           WHERE `templates_id` = $templates_id)");

Here's where my question comes in. Can I get all the IDs I just inserted so when I insert the jobs for those tasks I can associate them, or do I need to rewrite how I'm inserting the tasks and do them one at a time so I can use

Code:

$this->db->insert_id()

to grab them?

I've been staring at this for a while so if I'm missing another option altogether I wouldn't be surprised.

Thank you in advance.

[eluser]Jan_1[/eluser]
maybe show some lines more of your code. so it would be more easy to help you.
and I think it's also a question how to store the data in the database.

[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
I think the best solution is to use $this->db->insert_id() after each insert. That would be the safest way to do it.

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Thank you Fuzzy that's what I thought.

After looking at this for another several hours I can't associate the jobs with their parent tasks unless I do them as you suggest and add the task then all it's associated jobs, then the next task and it's jobs etc.

I was going to create a unique key for each project, then use the key and the template_task row id to associate the jobs which leaves my inserts really clean but the logic. Oh the logic.

Again, thank you for the sets of eyes.