Consolidating multiple card titles into the description box of one card

[Ed Schutte]

Is there a way I could take all of the card titles from all of the cards in a given list (or with a given label) and put/paste those titles into the description of one card? Sometimes I get long lists and I want to consolidate the multiple cards into one card in this way. please help.

[DiMaggio Tucci]

@Ed Schutte 

I think what @Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting suggested is probably better than putting it in the description.

However, if you absolutely need it in the description, I think this is possible to do.

My thought would be to loop through each card in the list and add the title to the description by using:

for each card in the list

find the card you want to write the description to

set the description to

{foundcarddescription}

{multipliercardname}

This takes the existing card description and appends the current card's name to it, and this is done for each card thanks to the "for each" automation.

But, again, I like the checklist idea better. This is just in case anyone literally requires it be in the description.

I also did not test this; it's more of an idea.

[Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting]

This would work well if the trigger is "when a card is added to list" (you could add other filters like labels etc...

It would look a bit different though:

When a card is added to "List A", find the card "List A Summary" and set the card description to {carddescription}\n {triggercardname}

Note: You don't need to use {foundcarddescription} because the find card cascade function changes the focus of the action to that card already 

[Ed Schutte]

Thank you all! I tested the "set card description" function . .and it worked! Here is my bonus question. . . .lets say, I wanted to do something similar, except this time, I wanted to merge all of the card descriptions from multiple cards into the card description of one card. . how could I do this?

[Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting]

Hi @Ed Schutte 

You can use an automation to consolidate all cards in a list into a checklist, if that is helpful?