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Butler Question

Chip Morris

My Weekly board has Lists for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. along with a List called Complete. Each list has a Cover with a corresponding title (Mon, Tue, Wed, Complete.) I would like to create a Butler command that archives everything on the Completed List at the end of the week but I don't want it to archive the card with the Cover.

Is this possible?

Thank you.

Chip

Accepted answers

Esme Crutchley

Hi @Chip Morris

This can be done if you set a 'Calendar' command.

You would need to label all the cards in the list that you want to archive with a 'Done' label or something similar, and then run the command like this:

Screenshot 2020-05-22 at 07.22.01.png

You could have a grey label, which wouldn't show up on the front and clutter up the card. Grey labels are really useful when you want to run Butler rules on cards but don't want them showing up on the front of the card.

So you could have the label on all the other cards except for the heading card, and then run the rule so everything would archive except the header cards.

Let me know if this helps!

Esme

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Esme Crutchley

Hi @Chip Morris

This can be done if you set a 'Calendar' command.

You would need to label all the cards in the list that you want to archive with a 'Done' label or something similar, and then run the command like this:

Screenshot 2020-05-22 at 07.22.01.png

So you could have the label on all the other cards except for the heading card, and then run the rule so everything would archive except the header cards.

Let me know if this helps!

Esme

Chip Morris

@Esme Crutchley I thought of that, too, but it seems to me that doing it that way means taking an extra step when I create a card. Not only will I have to create the card by doing whatever it is I'm doing, but then I'll have to go over into Labels and assign it Grey. I was really hoping there was a command like "all cards EXCEPT grey" or something like that, but I didn't see one.

I've only been using Trello for two weeks so if I'm missing something here don't be afraid to call me out on it.

Esme Crutchley

No worries @Chip Morris !

Right, are the heading cards static (as in you don't alter them or change them around or anything like that?

If they are, you could have a Butler rule to kick in on card creation. It could look something like this:

Screenshot 2020-05-22 at 19.10.06.png So, whenever you add another ard to the board, basically, every time you add a card that isn't the heading ones, it'll automatically add the label without you having to do anything.

Does that help?

Esme

Chip Morris

@Esme Crutchley Here's where I'm at. I can create a rule that adds a label every time I a add a new card. (Thanks for the grey tip. I didn't know why you'd want to use it if it didn't show up.) That's easy enough. And when I'm done with that card I simply move it over to the List Complete.

I can create a calendar command that removes cards at a certain time with the grey label, but I don't know how to further specify that I only want them removed from a certain list.

I'm sorry that I'm not getting this quicker. It shouldn't be this difficult, I know.

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