# Updating required properties before closing a task

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/updating-required-properties-before-closing-a-task/91565>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** workflows, calling, tasks, properties\
**Created:** [October 11, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/updating-required-properties-before-closing-a-task/91565 "2023-10-11T12:08:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![AElmeligy](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/aelmeligy/32/87155_2.png) [@AElmeligy](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AElmeligy)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/updating-required-properties-before-closing-a-task/91565/1 "2023-10-11T12:08:00Z")

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This feature obilgates updating some properties by users before marking a tesk as complete

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**Author:** ![Em111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@Em111](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Em111)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/updating-required-properties-before-closing-a-task/91565/2 "2023-11-06T02:34:19Z")

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Yes this would be great. We have reminder tasks to update certain properties if they remain updated after X period of time. This would definitely be useful.