diff --git a/.github/actions-scripts/projects.js b/.github/actions-scripts/projects.js
index 95146e4014..bf4b9a0bf6 100644
--- a/.github/actions-scripts/projects.js
+++ b/.github/actions-scripts/projects.js
@@ -164,10 +164,13 @@ export function generateUpdateProjectNextItemFieldMutation({
   function generateMutationToUpdateField({ item, fieldID, value, literal = false }) {
     const parsedValue = literal ? `value: "${value}"` : `value: ${value}`
 
-    // Strip "=" out of the item ID when creating the mutation ID to avoid a GraphQL parsing error
+    // Strip all non-alphanumeric out of the item ID when creating the mutation ID to avoid a GraphQL parsing error
     // (statistically, this should still give us a unique mutation ID)
     return `
-      set_${fieldID.substr(1)}_item_${item.replaceAll('=', '')}: updateProjectNextItemField(input: {
+      set_${fieldID.substr(1)}_item_${item.replaceAll(
+      /[^a-z0-9]/g,
+      ''
+    )}: updateProjectNextItemField(input: {
         projectId: $project
         itemId: "${item}"
         fieldId: ${fieldID}