# Automated task name - remove time

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/automated-task-name-remove-time/712819>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Tags:** tasks, rules\
**Created:** [20 February 2024 16:26 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automated-task-name-remove-time/712819 "2024-02-20T16:26:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Maria\_Yazici1](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Maria\_Yazici1](https://forum.asana.com/u/Maria_Yazici1)\
**Post date:** [20 February 2024 16:26 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automated-task-name-remove-time/712819/1 "2024-02-20T16:26:25Z")

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Hello everyone!

I’ve been trying to create a rule that would assign each task a title in the following way: ID-Task creation date-Project info:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/1/2/125f298be55a0802cce3e94ed72fb869e287f5e5.png)  
As a result, the title also contains the time and even a time zone:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/c/8/c8600dde2f7675ed108a622ffa80611bc5dc9548.png)  
Is there any way to limit it to only the date?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Jan-Rienk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jan-rienk/32/227709_2.png) [@Jan-Rienk](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jan-Rienk)\
**Post date:** [20 February 2024 16:48 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automated-task-name-remove-time/712819/2 "2024-02-20T16:48:07Z")

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The only way I can come up with is this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/7/e/7e670956665a5fe319a1224d6c219cfef8dd7c81.png)

Perhaps create a field `remove_due_date` and have this rule set it to “yes”

Then create another rule that get’s triggered by that and removes the due date and clears that field.

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**Author:** ![Phil\_Seeman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/phil_seeman/32/81525_2.png) [@Phil\_Seeman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Phil_Seeman)\
**Post date:** [20 February 2024 18:03 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automated-task-name-remove-time/712819/3 "2024-02-20T18:03:47Z")

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@Maria_Yazici1,

FYI you can accomplish this via our [Flowsana](https://flowsana.net) integration, using the **Modify task name** rule action and our [Variable Substitution](https://help.flowsana.net/general/variable-substitution-in-flowsana) capability, as follows:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/3/b/3bf40648c8c1090a7a47c4f3c4da6dad82dfdcbd.png)

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**Author:** ![Maria\_Yazici1](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Maria\_Yazici1](https://forum.asana.com/u/Maria_Yazici1)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2024 10:56 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automated-task-name-remove-time/712819/4 "2024-02-21T10:56:42Z")

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Thanks a lot, that helped!

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**Author:** ![Maria\_Yazici1](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Maria\_Yazici1](https://forum.asana.com/u/Maria_Yazici1)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2024 11:10 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automated-task-name-remove-time/712819/5 "2024-02-21T11:10:37Z")

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Thank you, the first solution worked but I’ll keep this in mind too!

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/system/32/276370_2.png) [@system](https://forum.asana.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [28 February 2024 11:11 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/automated-task-name-remove-time/712819/6 "2024-02-28T11:11:16Z")

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