# Check for existing task workflow before creating new one

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/check-for-existing-task-workflow-before-creating-new-one/42384>\
**Category:** CRM\
**Tags:** professional\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/check-for-existing-task-workflow-before-creating-new-one/42384 "2021-08-16T15:36:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![JKalfayan](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jkalfayan/32/82448_2.png) [@JKalfayan](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JKalfayan)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/check-for-existing-task-workflow-before-creating-new-one/42384/1 "2021-08-16T15:36:39Z")

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I’ve got a lead re-engagement workflow and all it says is if a contact is a lead and if last contact is greater than 30 days, create a new task to re-engage/follow up.

 ![JKalfayan_0-1629128192146.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/5/85fd87b9a7ea88e6b7de0968c34dc19557643b54.png)

I’d like to add one more condition to this which would be a way to check and see if that contact already has an outstanding task before creating a new one. This happens as I will manually create a follow up after a call/email/meeting but the workflow doesn’t know this so I’ll end up with multiple tasks getting created for same contact.

Any tips/help here?

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/check-for-existing-task-workflow-before-creating-new-one/42384/2 "2021-08-16T18:08:09Z")

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Hi @JKalfayan,

To accomplish this, you’d create an active list, filtering for contacts who have an activity associated with them that is a task. You can then **exclude** this list from your enrollment triggers (“Contact is not a member of…”).

 ![karstenkoehler_0-1629137245304.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/5/d5cff101bba216c1cea0828fa3881115aa395fa5.png)

You could of course further specifiy this by task title, task priority, task type etc. Just keep in mind that a contact will enter this list if at least one task meets these criteria.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions!