How can I add all unchecked items in a checklist in Trello to another card in a different list?

carolyn french

Some background: I really enjoyed building a menu board for Thanksgiving, using the lists for Appetizer, Side Dishes, Main Course, Dessert, and the cards for the individual dishes with checklists for the ingredients (with pictures too- it was a drool-worthy board). Of course I went through my cabinet and checked off the ingredients I already have in my house. The rest of the unchecked items are what I needed to go shopping for.

I'm trying to find an automation to bring all the unchecked items across all the cards into one card called Shopping, so I have one list to look at when I go to the grocery store.

Now that I'm doing this again for Christmas, I thought I would ask here to see if anyone has any ideas, or if anyone has done this before? TIA!

milynnus

@carolyn french here's a solution and have a blessed Christmas :

when the name of a card starts with "Build my shopping list", collect all cards with an incomplete checklist into links in checklist "gathered_cards" using pattern "[{cardname}]({cardlink})", for each card linked from an item in checklist "gathered_cards", convert all the incomplete items in checklist "{*}" into cards in list "Inbox" using pattern "{checklistitemname}", find a card with link "{triggercardlink}", remove the "gathered_cards" checklist from the card, and rename the card to "My Shopping List"

 

when the name of a card starts with "My Shopping List", collect all cards in list "Inbox" into items in checklist "Ingredients To Buy" using pattern "{cardname}"

 

You can have a third command to archive all the cards in "Inbox"