# Add a variable to naming Google Sheets upon creation

**URL:** <https://community.parabola.io/t/add-a-variable-to-naming-google-sheets-upon-creation/630>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** Building-Flows\
**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/add-a-variable-to-naming-google-sheets-upon-creation/630 "2020-06-01T08:51:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Simon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Simon](https://community.parabola.io/u/Simon)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/add-a-variable-to-naming-google-sheets-upon-creation/630/1 "2020-06-01T08:51:15Z")

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1. What is your feature/integration request?  
I’ve tried setting up a flow that creates a new sheet every day, is it possible to use a date variable for the naming field? It would look like this or similar

 ![CleanShot 2020-06-01 at 10.47.14@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/parabola/original/1X/ffc170e2fb2733e51ac4024cad955f7fae62f685.png)

1. What problem would this feature/integration solve?  
I could easily use it for proper targeting etc. and automate generally.

2. How do you solve/workaround this problem today?  
Manually.

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**Author:** ![David](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@David](https://community.parabola.io/u/David)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/add-a-variable-to-naming-google-sheets-upon-creation/630/2 "2020-06-02T14:05:17Z")

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> [@Simon](#):
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> 1. I’ve tried setting up a flow that creates a new sheet every day, is it possible to use a date variable for the naming field? It would look like this or similar

You should be able to accomplish this by selecting “Create New Sheet” for the File selection. Attached is my setup for this. Also attached are the Google Sheet outputs.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/parabola/original/1X/803732c74c115af824de07a30dd06a5d89a1114d.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/parabola/original/1X/4bc6e572cd40603cdb7b1089ef906efba126bcb7.png)

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**Author:** ![Simon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Simon](https://community.parabola.io/u/Simon)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/add-a-variable-to-naming-google-sheets-upon-creation/630/3 "2020-06-03T06:53:56Z")

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Oh wow so it actually works out of the box, I wasn’t really aware of this. Thanks!