Automate - add a dashcard at the top of each new list

Question

I have an archive board setup, where archived cards from multiple boards get moved.

This board creates a new list at the start of each month that cards archived that month get moved into.

When it creates the list you can automate it copying an existing dashcard into a named list, but you can't ask it to copy into the next list along.

When creating a rule, you can set it to move a card to the next or previous list, but it appears that isn't an option when a date is triggering the action:

Option on setting a rule:

vs Setting a calendar trigger on the 1st of each month.

I hope it's clear what I'm trying to do!

Thanks,
Andy

Hannah Humbert - Simpla Workflows · Answer

@Andrew Parker hope that works for you! Not sure what your rule looks like to move/copy cards into the archive board, but you could do something similar like "every month, move all cards in the "Done" list to list "{monthname} {year}".

Andrew Parker_ab7xpg · Answer

Thank you Hannah, I didn't realise you could use {monthname} {year} in the 'list' field to define that the cards should be moved to the list you've just created.

We're about to roll into a new month in 2 minutes, so it will be a good test of whether it works or not

Hannah Humbert - Simpla Workflows · Answer

Hi @Andrew Parker ! Would it work to create a list on your archive board called "Template" and just have a template dashcard in that list? So then the command would just copy that template card each month. So something like this: