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Adding a label, when the start date of a card has reached a certain date from now.

Tino Roßberg

Hi there, I am new here. Sorry for my bad English. I have this problem:

I want to set a rule to add a label zu a card when the card reaches a certain date or amount of time (e.g. when the start date of the card is next week). It only works when I add a new card with a new start date. It does'n work in progress. I try to simulate with the following procedure: I set a rule to add a label, when the start date is tomorrow. When I add a card to trello adding the start date for tomorrow the rule works. Then I added a card with a start date the dau after tomorrow and waited one day. But the label was not added to the second card automatically.

I tried both triggers " set on" and "moved in". They only work with a new card adding a net start date.

Hope somebody is understanding my problem.

Can anybody help a newbie? Thanks in advance!

Tino

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Vongsawat

What you want to look at are the Due Date Triggers. In the automation window, the left panel lists Rules / Card Button / Board Button / Scheduled / Due Date.

The Due Date triggers allow you to trigger the rule the moment a due date is reached, X time before it, or a workday before it, etc.

The problem is that all such automations trigger off of Due Date. Nothing triggers off of Start Date. So you'd have to incorporate that in to how you design your board.

Some people do so by using the Due Date instead of a Start Date. Keep the actual due date in a custom field, or in an automation if its a fixed amount of time. Then switch them out when the initial Due Date hits. Using labels or lists so the automations now which is which, etc.

As for Filtering. You can access the Filter panel by hitting "F", or the button next to the Automation button. You can then filter based on Due Date (yet again) as well as one day/week/month before the Due Date.

Again, no concern for Start Date. All the systems are built around Due Date. Start Date is a relatively new feature, and still has limited support in the other systems (automations, filtering).

Hopefully they get around to fully integrating it soon. Until then, Due Dates are what you use if you want the full features

PS: By accepting your own comments as answers. It signals to everyone that this Question was Answered. So you get less help.

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Tino Roßberg

Or is there another way to highlight or filter Cards with a start certsin start date, e.g. in the next week?

Tino Roßberg

To specify: Some rules i enabled with the trigger "start date" work, if I apply them to new cards, but not for older one who run in the specified period of start date.

We need exactly such a funktion or procedure to highlight or filter cards by start date.

Greets

Vongsawat

What you want to look at are the Due Date Triggers. In the automation window, the left panel lists Rules / Card Button / Board Button / Scheduled / Due Date.

The Due Date triggers allow you to trigger the rule the moment a due date is reached, X time before it, or a workday before it, etc.

The problem is that all such automations trigger off of Due Date. Nothing triggers off of Start Date. So you'd have to incorporate that in to how you design your board.

Again, no concern for Start Date. All the systems are built around Due Date. Start Date is a relatively new feature, and still has limited support in the other systems (automations, filtering).

Hopefully they get around to fully integrating it soon. Until then, Due Dates are what you use if you want the full features

PS: By accepting your own comments as answers. It signals to everyone that this Question was Answered. So you get less help.

Tino Roßberg

Great, thank you very much for the advice! It has driven me crazy a bit because of fact that they allow you a trigger using start date.

Greets!

Tino Roßberg

But nevertheless the rule für a custom field doesn't werk yet. I want to add a label to the card when the date of the custom field is tomorrow. It works for new cards but not for the ones who already have a date in the custom field. Crazy.

Tino Roßberg

Here is the rule: "when custom field "Datumsfeld 1" is set to a date in a card starting tomorrow, add the dark red "Datum droht" label to the card"

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