diff --git a/atdb/taskdatabase/views.py b/atdb/taskdatabase/views.py
index 7919be2560a5dfcb8c2649efbf149e93000b09d2..e572fd97cf6f743a2e87ed6e400c1c732c32a0e8 100644
--- a/atdb/taskdatabase/views.py
+++ b/atdb/taskdatabase/views.py
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ class LogEntryListViewAPI(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
     # also needs to propagate to the task.new_status
     def perform_create(self, serializer):
         log_entry = serializer.save()
-        task = log_entry.task3
+        task = log_entry.task
         task.new_status = log_entry.status
         task.save()