Mark All Google Tasks Complete at the end of the day

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Greetings Makers! I am completely new to automation and am currently on the free plan so I can evaluate it. I have searched for google task automation in the Make.com help but cannot find what I am looking for.

I have a different set of tasks that I need to perform each day of the week. I created a single list of google tasks containing recurring tasks to generate the list for each day. I have this list of google tasks displayed on a monitor in my office. Currently today’s tasks and all past tasks are displaying (today, yesterday, 2 days ago, etc…) and it is bleeding into the information I have displayed below the task list.

I want to have Make monitor the google task list and automatically mark all open tasks as completed every day at 11:59pm so each day I only see tasks for “Today”. Is this possible? Where can I find how to do this?

I assume I would use the Google Tasks Modules for “Watch Tasks” and “Update Tasks” but I haven’t been able to figure out how to:

  1. watch all tasks
  2. set all open tasks to completed
  3. do it on a schedule

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Many Thanks!

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I found the schedule, and it looks like I can filter between the modules based on:
Condition “2. Status” Equal to “needsAction”
But the last module (Google Tasks - Update a Task" I am REALLY struggling with…
How do I get this to set all the open tasks to completed?

Am I on the right track?

Thanks in advance!

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HI @Juoquim

Thanks for reaching out to the community.

To solve your issue, you can configure the module “Update a Task” as shown below:

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Msquare Automation
Gold Partner of Make
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Thanks for the response @Msquare_Automation!

I was able to get it to complete 1 task. Then I changed the Task ID to a different task and saved it. It won’t complete the new task:

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What am I missing?

Is it possible to use a wildcard, or what do I need to do to get it to close all open tasks? Am I going to need to have 20 “Update a Task” modules in order to process 20 tasks every day?

Thanks in advance!

Juoquim
Newbie to Automation

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I’m abandoning this path as it appears that this will not work with recurring tasks. Each recurring task has a unique ID and pulling the Task ID (text name of the task) will not work on successive recurrences of the task.