Error Updating Task custom field date_value

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#1

Hello,

Good Day. Kindly help.
My goal is to update date custom field of a specific task.
I sent put request: https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/tasks/{task_gid}

{
	"data": {
		"custom_fields": {
			"12032479587XXXX": {
				"date_value": {
					"date": "2022-11-18"
				}
			}
		},
		"workspace": "XXXXXX"
	}
}

But I encountered error: “date_value: DayAndDateTime should have exactly one of: date, date_time”

I have tried including both date and date_time but still the same error.

{
	"data": {
		"custom_fields": {
			"120324795XXXXX": {
				"date_value": {
					"date": "2022-11-18",
					"date_time": null
				}
			}
		},
		"workspace": "XXXXXX"
	}
}
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#2

Hi @Jehedaiah_Minguito,

I know it goes against what the error message says, but try setting both - set date formatted as just the date portion, and set date_time to the date formatted as a full date-time value.

#3

Hello @Phil_Seeman!

I already tried including both date and date_time but still the same error.

#4

Did you format them exactly as I mentioned?

Example:

"date_value": {
          "date": "2022-08-05",
          "date_time": "2022-08-05T14:30:00.000Z"
        },
#5

Hello @Phil_Seeman. Yes, I have tried including both date and date_time (Code#1). I also tried if only date_time (Code#2). Both cases unfortunately encountered the same error.

Code#1

{
	"data": {
		"custom_fields": {
			"12031552XXXXXX": {
				"date_value": {
					"date": "2022-10-27",
					"date_time": "2022-10-27T03:40:23.771Z"
				}
			}
		},
		"workspace": "XXXXXX"
	}
}

Code#2

{
	"data": {
		"custom_fields": {
			"12031552XXXXXX": {
				"date_value": {
					"date_time": "2022-10-27T03:42:32.683Z"
				}
			}
		},
		"workspace": "1180352XXXXXX"
	}
}
#6

Possibly unrelated, by why do you give the workspace gid as well?

#7

@Jehedaiah_Minguito,

Sorry I gave you the wrong syntax; here’s the right one:

So to update a date custom field, the call would look something like:
“custom_fields”: {
“4578152156”: {“date”:“2022-08-18”}
},
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#8

Thanks you very much! :slight_smile:

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#9

Thank you, that was extremely helpful. I didn’t the reference to custom fields in the API docs and wasn’t sure how to populate a date field. Life saver!

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