Archive Cards older than a particular age

David Pollard_btn2x5

I have a trello list named "Completed"

Once a card in this list is older than 365 days I want to automatically archive it.

I have written this butlerbot command

every day at 3:00am, archive all the cards more than 365 days in list "Completed"

The command is accepted by butler but the result is always the same.

I archived 0 cards in list "Completed".

I'm sure there are cards older than this number of days in the list.

Once this is solved I want to create a command to automatically empty the archive that I can schedule to run once a week.  My goal being to run the first archive command say every Monday and then clear the archive the following Sunday.

Any Ideas?

 

Iain Dooley

@David Pollard to your first point, note that butlerbot is being phased out, so you should try and implement only commands using the power up.

However at any rate I don't think you can use time in list as a filter like that, you'd have to do something like:

for each card in list "Completed" if {carddaysinlist} is more than 365 archive the card

I can't test this as I no longer have a Butler account.

I also don't think the Butler power up can delete cards at all. You can delete cards with the bot though. The solution to deleting cards on the Butler Support board was to move them to another board first, then archive them, then have a bot command that deleted them on a schedule.

In your case, perhaps you could move the cards to another board instead of archiving them, that way you'd have a whole board just for archives, keeping your main board's archive clear (or you could periodically delete that board and create another one or something

Here's the support comment I'm talking about:

https://trello.com/c/yquk7Mnk/17-feature-requests#comment-5aa014143468a95ffadb6e6a