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Automate card move to specific lane base on card name?

Jill Barton
July 23, 2026

I have cards that are being added to an holding lane on a board that I would like to auto move.  I would like to automate the move of those cards to the lane they belong in based on the matching of the card name and the lane name.  For example card gets added to the board with a title "Smith, John - task to do” and I would love to be able for that card to move to the list titled “Smith”.  Can I do this using look up variables?  Name of card and name of lane will not match but will consistently have the last name of the client as the first word of the card title.  List is client last name.

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Arkadiusz Wroblewski
Community Champion
July 25, 2026

Hello @Jill Barton 

Yes, you can do this in a single rule using Trello wildcards, no lookup action needed!

Set your trigger to `when a card with a name starting with "{?}," is added to list "Holding"` and the action to `move the card to the bottom of list "{cardnamewildcard1}"`. Since your titles look like `Smith, John - task`, `{?},` grabs everything before the comma (`Smith`) so `{cardnamewildcard1}` can route it straight to the Smith list.

Make sure the destination list already exists with an exact name match, and give it a quick test on a dummy card first!

Here also for some reference, quite close Question to yours Solved: Automatically move certain cards to another list b...

Best,

Arek 🤠

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