How do I reference a template card's custom field and copy it to another card's custom field?

[Enoch Yang]

Hey everyone! I'm running into a bit of a roadblock when it comes to using custom fields in automations.

If I wanted to reference a card using the "lookup" function and copy the looked up card's custom field value into a different card, how would I do that?

For example, if the custom field is called "rate" and I wanted to copy it from one card to another, how would I do that?

I've tried {customfieldvalue} {ratecustomfieldvalue} and {customfieldratevalue} and neither of them seem to work. I'd love some help with this!

Thanks so much!

[Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting]

Oh if only they existed...🙄

There are two rather unpleasant ways to acheive this purely in Trello automation...

1)

If the cards are linked together, there is a horribly convoluted way of doing it where you use 1 automation to clear the custom field, a second automation that when the custom field is cleared, sets it to {customfieldvaluebefore}, then a final automation that when the custom field is set, find the card linked and and set it to {customfieldvalue}

2)

Set an automation that adds the custom field name and value to the description on the template card when it is set, "set the description to {carddescription}\n {customfieldname}:{customfieldvalue}

Then in your lookup automation, you will lookup the card and set the description to {foundcarddescription)

Finally, you will have an automation, when the description of the card contains Rate:{*}, set the custom field Rate to {wildcard1}

I told you they were ugly 🤢😆