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title: "Adding Task names"
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updated: 2025-07-30T00:34:20Z
published: 2025-07-30T00:34:20Z
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# Adding Task names

Studies can optionally contain Task names. During a recording, the researcher operating Flow can assign one of the pre-established Task names from the selected Study to each individual dataset.

![Image: Lightbulb icon.](https://cdn.document360.io/c97072d7-dbc3-41f6-b55e-b62dbde0527b/Images/Documentation/Tip_icon_LONG(6).png)Kernel provides a set of Tasks built with Unity that provide stimuli or instructions for a participant during a recording. To learn more, see [Kernel Tasks](/docs/kernel-unity-tasks-overview).

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#### To add a Task name:

1. From the desired Study in Portal, click the **Tasks** tab.
2. Type a name into the Add Task field and click the **Add Task** plus icon.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c97072d7-dbc3-41f6-b55e-b62dbde0527b/Images/Documentation/image-1694023815019.png)The Task Name is added to the Tasks List for that Study, and also appears in the Task pop-up menu of the Data Acquisition section of Portal's Flow UI for recording data.

NOTE: Task names are not required. They simply serve as additional metadata to aid researchers in categorizing and cataloging datasets within a study. 

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#### To change a Task's display name:

You may want your Task to be identified on the backend with a certain name but displayed in a dataset's metadata with another name. For example, you may want to identify a task as "Wisconsin Card Sorting Task" but for display purposes make it "WCST." The display name is what shows up in the drop-down menu when selecting a Task name in the Portal Flow UI, and when filtering datasets by Task Name on the **Datasets** tab.

1. In the Tasks List on the **Tasks** tab of this Study, click the blue **Edit** icon to the right of the Task name whose display name you want to edit.
2. Enter a display name in the **Display Name** box.
3. Press **Submit.**

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#### To Remove a Task name:

1. In the Tasks List on the **Tasks** tab of this Study, click the red **trash** icon to the right of the Task name you want to remove.  
A confirmation dialog appears.
2. Click **OK**.  
  
The Task name is deleted. This action is permanent.

NOTE:Datasets completed with a Task name associated with them are not modified, even if the associated Task name is removed from the study.