Automation logic excludes mirror cards

[Ryan]

This works:

mark card complete —> archive card —> find mirror —> archive mirror

But I can’t make this work:

daily at 10pm —> archive all complete cards (including mirrors)

I’ve tried adding labels and custom fields (to the source card and the mirror card) and creating automation that archives all cards with that label or field. Doesn’t work.

I think it’s a bug that mirror cards are excluded from automation logic that should apply to all cards on a board. After all when you filter a board by label that logic applies to all cards, including mirrors.

[Nivedhya Vikram]

Hi Ryan,

Welcome to the community!

Automations do not include mirror cards , instead you can try setting the below automation in the source board,

when the card is marked as complete in a card, find a Mirror card on board " mirrored board name", and move the card to the top of list "Completed" on board " mirrored board name "

[Ryan]

> Automations do not include mirror cards

They do though, that's my point - only scheduled automations do not.

One of two things should be implemented:

1. archiving a card should archive it's mirror, or
2. scheduled automations should allow cascade logic 

[Caity]

Mirror cards are essentially embedded cards from somewhere else, without their own qualities. So, although you can see that the original card is complete, the Mirror card itself is not complete, and the automation rule isn't able to connect those dots.

I would suggest adding a separate rule saying that, when a card is archived, look for the Mirror and archive it as well. Your scheduled rule should then be able to trigger that one when it runs.

[Ryan]

Your suggestion works. Allowing suitable scheduled rules to access cascade logic would simplify things quite a bit.