# Relative Task Dates when Creating Tasks Through Workflows **URL:** \ **Category:** CRM\ **Tags:** tasks\ **Created:** [April 15, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/relative-task-dates-when-creating-tasks-through-workflows/129945 "2025-04-15T13:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MWarren9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MWarren9](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MWarren9)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/relative-task-dates-when-creating-tasks-through-workflows/129945/1 "2025-04-15T13:33:12Z")
I am looking to create a workflow in which a task is created after a playbook is logged. The tricky piece that I am trying to figure out is how to set the due date of the task to a date collected in the playbook itself. I know I can have the playbook update a property on the company object and then have the workflow trigger once that date is within X# of days to create the workflow to be due either “immediately” or a pre-set number of days “from now”, but what I’d like to do is create the task to be due at the specified date, essentially creating the tasks on the calendar in the future - giving us more foresight. Is this even possible? ---
**Author:** ![CarolinaDeMares](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/carolinademares/32/22707_2.png) [@CarolinaDeMares](https://community.hubspot.com/u/CarolinaDeMares)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/relative-task-dates-when-creating-tasks-through-workflows/129945/2 "2025-04-15T19:42:44Z")
Hi @MWarren9 ! Unfortunately, this isn’t something that’s natively supported in HubSpot at the moment — specifically, you can’t set a task due date to match the exact value of a date property. That said, here’s a potential workaround I’ve come up with: - Use the **playbook date property** as the workflow trigger: _“Property is known”_ - Add a branch: - Under the “less than 0 days” branch, create a task and set the due date to **“immediately”** \*\* ![Workflow zonder naam - 2025-04-15 19_21_46 GMT 0000.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/c/5/c59334fcce6c80b046568cf959e7cd5de58acfa3.png) \*\* It’s not perfect, but it can be useful for flagging overdue or already-passed dates to make sure nothing falls through the cracks. Happy to refine this further if needed! [Carolina De Mares](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolina-de-mares/) ![CarolinaDeMares_0-1744137610972.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/2X/9/96bd33c2144bb420111514e8bddb94217a1e90ce.png) [**Brandgang**](https://www.brandgang.com/contact) Goirkekanaaldijk 14 5046 AT Tilburg