# Create and link in one action

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**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/create-and-link-in-one-action/2391 "2022-01-13T11:18:29Z")\
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Here’s a little tip that can be used to speed up creation and linking of entities.

Imagine that you have Projects, which are linked to multiple Tasks. You want to create a Task and simultaneously link it to a Project.

You can add a symbols and extra text in the naming of the Task to indicate which project you want to link it to.  
In my example, I want to create a Task called ‘Task 1’ and link it to an already existing Project called ‘Project A’. To do so, I type the name of the Task as “Task 1\>Project A”.

Behind the scenes…  
I have a couple of automations.  
The first extracts the text to the right hand side of the arrow symbol and stores it in a text field called ‘Right hand side’:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/e/e54d469fce0854496d35c00605af923ab740dce4.png)  
The formula is as follows:  
`Middle([Step 1 Task].Name,Find([Step 1 Task].Name,">") + 1,999)`

Then I have an automation that uses this information to find the corresponding Project to which the task should be linked, and then removes the extra text from the name:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/3/34c66dbf8afddca628a8abec6cda59da5956fb92.png)

The formulas are as follows:  
`Projects.Filter(Name = [Step 1 Task].[Right hand side]).Sort().First()`  
and  
`Left([Step 1 Task].Name,Find([Step 1 Task].Name,">") - 1)`

The result of this is the following behaviour:  
When, for example, I want to create Task 1 for a Client - I can automatically assign it to Project A without needing to follow the normal flow of create, open and edit:  
 ![firefox_pErULY4wai](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/6/618ec160748754594d71a9f1b83b5b3f9263033c.gif)

The same behaviour occurs if you create a Task inline from within a rich-text field.  
 ![firefox_YWU8UHDh9r](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/1/13f0bba2d2aab9e3eb7897661cf375d22389a4fa.gif)

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