How to send custom email notification to matched username

Kevin Shiflet

I would like to create custom email notifications for certain activities my users could take in Trello, including assigning a card, changing a label or custom field, or commenting and tagging someone. 

 

Butler appears to limit the recipients of custom email notifications to 1) specific email address, 2) All members of a card, 3 All members of a board. 

 

Is there any way to instead dynamically insert the email address dynamically according to the matched user name or triggering user name? 

 

Butler variables - Trello Help

Hannah Humbert - Simpla Workflows

Hi @Kevin Shiflet ! Welcome to the community I guess Trello would need some way of understanding what username corresponds to what email address. An idea could be to create a list and then add a card for each user. The title of the card would be the user's Trello username. This list could exist on the board where the activity is happening, or you might want to store it on a separate board. From there, you can create a custom field called "Email". In each "user card", input their email address. Then, your rule could look like this:

when X happens, find a card titled "{username}" on board "Directory", and send an email notification to "{{%Email}}"

If you don't have custom fields due to being on the free plan, you could just add the email address to the description and just use the {carddescription} variable.