Task Trigger to support Project Name Variable
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sdowney
I have created a spreadsheet to track completed tasks. For some time now, the automation I created to record a completed task has been adding a row for every project rather than recording the completed task within a project.
I have defined a "Team" called "Vehicles".
Within that team, I have listed all of the vehicles in our fleet as "Projects".
Each project has a list of tasks such as "Tire Rotation", "Oil Change", "License & Registration," etc.
I've defined an automation with a "Task Completed" trigger. I've also specified the project (vehicle).
The action is defined to insert a row on a Google spreadsheet with text matching the project name and adding the "Task Content".
I created these automations over a year ago and, it seems some of the updates have added features that have altered the process as to what I intended.
I attempted to create a single automation that would add to the spreadsheet in the way the system appears to work now but, I can find no way to include the project name legibly. I've tried all of the "@" functions and there is not one that allows for the project name, the "Project ID" function is a cryptic jumble of characters that means nothing to the spreadsheet user.
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John at Taskade
Thank you for this — you've laid out exactly what broke and why it matters. Your vehicle fleet setup is clever: each vehicle as a project, shared task types across them, and an automation that logs completed tasks to a Google Sheet with the project (vehicle) name. The problem is that the Project Name variable isn't cleanly available as a readable text string in the automation output, making your spreadsheet entries ambiguous. We added project name support in custom field update automations in v5.182.0, but the issue you're hitting in a Task Completed trigger sending to Google Sheets is a gap we need to address. A human-readable "Project Name" variable in task triggers would make your entire fleet tracking system work again without rebuilding from scratch. Automation reliability is a big focus right now — v6.99.0 and v6.100.0 both brought automation trigger improvements. Taskade Genesis (https://taskade.com/create) is where these capabilities are growing fastest. See all updates at https://taskade.com/changelog. Really appreciate the detailed write-up!
John at Taskade
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Update: This is on our roadmap!
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Hi there, thanks for reaching out, we responded to your email about the same issue, I've helped to edit the title of the post to better reflect your request