# Customize the Last modified date observed properties

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-the-last-modified-date-observed-properties/97543>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** properties\
**Created:** [January 10, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-the-last-modified-date-observed-properties/97543 "2024-01-10T20:04:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![klefevre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@klefevre](https://community.hubspot.com/u/klefevre)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-the-last-modified-date-observed-properties/97543/1 "2024-01-10T20:04:36Z")

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Hello,

Currently, for each Hubspot object, a **Last modified date** property (or equivalent) is updated each time **ANY** other property is updated (all properties are “observed”).

It would be wonderful to be able to create an equivalent property, “observing” ANY other property update, **EXCEPT a parametrized list of properties**.

Concrete use case:

1. we currently daily compute a **Today’s date** property with the current date value. This implies all object records are considered modified and **Last modified date** property is updated accordingly, even if NO other property is modified

2. in parallel, we would like to INCREMENTALLY extract Hubspot data for our Datawarehouse. This is NOT feasible as ALL data is considered as changed every day

=\> but this would be feasible thanks to this feature 🙂

Another use case: track the **Last modified date** of a given object consecutive to a human action (not a Workflow).

Thank you !

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**Author:** ![MSB2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e79b87/32.png) [@MSB2](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MSB2)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-the-last-modified-date-observed-properties/97543/2 "2024-05-09T14:00:15Z")

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Has there been any update on this? This was functionality I had in salesforce that is incredibly useful… have not figured out how to replicate in hubspot

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**Author:** ![Stevie-Kv](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/stevie-kv/32/97206_2.png) [@Stevie-Kv](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Stevie-Kv)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customize-the-last-modified-date-observed-properties/97543/3 "2024-11-27T10:50:23Z")

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Adding a +1 here - Had a few of the exact same use cases as the OP.  
A workaround is to create a custom datatime property and have a workflow update this property, though it’s only a good workaround if you have just a few properties to check. If you’re looking to exclude just a few properties out of 100s, this will be very tedious to set up and then maintain…

 ![HawkSteve_0-1732704534816.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/8/981f785f0d62ee2d97f58247b0dc7e19fcc348af.png)