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Automating Due Date on a Linked Card

Virginia Le

Hello,

I'm trying to create a rule w/Butler to automate card creation with due dates, but, the new card generated never copies over the due date. I'd like the due date to copy over, then add 7 days, which would create a new due date for the new "Linked Card."

When I run the rule, it goes as far as creating the card, adding the "Link" to the original card, but it never carries over the due date. Here's a screenshot of the rule:

Screen Shot 2021-06-04 at 2.08.20 PM.png

I've also tried to have the rule refer back to "find the first card linked in the attachments" before setting the due date:

Screen Shot 2021-06-04 at 2.41.12 PM.png

Here's a screenshot of the two cards I end up with, the 7 days have been added to the original card's Trello Due Date:
Screen Shot 2021-06-04 at 2.54.42 PM.png

Thanks for any help!

Accepted answers

Iain Dooley

@Virginia Le the problem is that when you "find" a card, you make that the subject of any subsequent commands. If instead you use "look up", you will be able to access the variables from the found card but you can use those to set values on the card you're working on.

The only rub is that you can't access custom field variables on looked up cards, so you will need to add a step which is to see a custom field on the subject card to the variable {foundcardduedate} and then set the date to the value in the custom field plus 7 days.

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Iain Dooley

Virginia Le

@Iain Dooley I'm really new to Trello, and I'm not familiar with bracket commands. How do they work, please? And, how would I add a step to recognize the custom field? Thank you so much for your time! Love learning!

Iain Dooley

@Virginia Le here's the documentation on butler variables:

https://help.trello.com/article/1157-variables

here is the information on how lookup vs find works:

https://help.trello.com/article/1193-butler-card-lookups

Virginia Le

@Iain Dooley Thank you.

The following rule is working now, adding the 7 days to the new card.

Screen Shot 2021-06-09 at 10.19.28 AM.png

But another rule is no longer running on the new card. Let me explain, I have a DUE DATE NEEDED label routine added to all new cards, then removed when a due date is added to the card. (Let's call this Rule 2.) (Let's call the rule we have been discussing originally Rule 1.)

Here is Rule 2:

Screen Shot 2021-06-09 at 10.47.53 AM.png

When the Rule 1 runs, creating the new card w/the 7 days added, and applied to the card's due date, the DUE DATE NEEDED label should be removed by Rule 2. But, it does not remove the label. So, I experimented several label removal additions to Rule 1, but that didn't work either.

This is how the cards end up:

Screen Shot 2021-06-09 at 10.35.41 AM.png

Thanks again for all your help, and any suggestion you might have for this new odd rule problem.

I'm wondering if it's because the card goes on the board with the due date set already, then Rule 2 doesn't recognize the due date as having been set after the card has been created, so it doesn't remove the label?