# Tasker integration seems to break if goal is changed from manual to API

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tasker-integration-seems-to-break-if-goal-is-changed-from-manual-to-api/6971>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [July 5, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tasker-integration-seems-to-break-if-goal-is-changed-from-manual-to-api/6971 "2020-07-05T15:45:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![stanczakdominik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/stanczakdominik/32/3320_2.png) [@stanczakdominik](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/stanczakdominik)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tasker-integration-seems-to-break-if-goal-is-changed-from-manual-to-api/6971/1 "2020-07-05T15:45:09Z")

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I’ve got a bunch of phone-based goals I’m automating using Tasker, and the built in Tasker integration, which is great. I create a manual goal, wire a Tasker trigger to a Beeminder plugin action to submit a datapoint or start/stop a timer for that goal, it’s all great.

However, I’m then stuck with a good number of manual goals that are not actually manual; and I’ve noticed that if I change them to API goals on the website (which they sort of are - they certainly aren’t goals for which I haven’t figured automations yet, so at least they’re not quite manual), after a few days (I haven’t been able to figure out when and why, exactly) they stop being updated.

It’s like the Tasker integration is checking for whether it’s a manual and thus updatable goal not only at goal selection time (which would be reasonable to me for the reasons above), but also at update time. Am I right in that guess? If that’s so, could we discuss whether that’s necessary? 🙂

(This last happened a few weeks ago, and admittedly I haven’t checked back on it since)

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**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tasker-integration-seems-to-break-if-goal-is-changed-from-manual-to-api/6971/2 "2020-07-06T14:27:25Z")

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I’ve added checking on this to the Beedroid issue tracker.

[[UPDATE: fixed! [http://beeminder.com/changelog#3580](http://beeminder.com/changelog#3580)]]