Is there a variable in butler for all board members?

Question

I'm trying to create a card button that will add all members on my board to a card when used, but I don't see any variable for {boardmemberusernames} or similar. Everything I can find is for card members or the member performing the action.

I tried using a wildcard variable and it didn't work. The only other way I can think to do it is with a brute-force method: to add lots of actions to the button to add each board member one at a time, which seems very inefficient.

Am I missing anything? Is there a way that a board member variable could be easily added if it doesn't already exist?

Iain Dooley · Accepted Answer

@shessweb I don't think there's a way to do that with Butler, can I ask the use case? You can notify everyone with a comment using the @board keyword

Esme Crutchley · Accepted Answer

Hi @shessweb

Welcome to the Community!

You could create a rule, or card button to do this.

For a rule, you could have something like: when a card is added to the board, add [and then list the usernames - which should appear from a drop down of everyone that's already on the board] (I only have one other person on my team/board - so mine looks a little thin on the ground!):

You could have a card button that does the same thing:

Obviously, if you only want specific people under specific circumstances - then you could change the rule to trigger on something more narrow e.g. when a card is added to list "something" with the green "something" label - then add these people. A card button wouldn't be able to distinguish this because it's 'just' a button.

But either of these options would work!

Esme :)