Automation Rule - Creating a New List and Moving Items to the New List & Date Issues

Question

Hi,

I need to see my completed tasks on the Monday of every week, so that I can complete timesheeting.

To enable this, I've set up a completed list. What I'd like is if at the beginning of every Monday, a scheduled action will create a new list called "Completed {date-1d}" to create a list that for the example of this week on 4th December,  called "Completed 1/12/23", moves all my cards from an existing list (that uses rules) called "Completed" and then archive that list for my reference.

I can't seem to get Trello to reference a list that it's creating as part of that automation.

I've also run into a weird item where using the "1 working day" time may not be pulling through. If I use a button that changes the due date to "1 working day" from now, it seems to add 1 working day plus another working day

eg: On 3/12 (10am Saturday) I tested a button that should change the due date to 1 working day from now. It changes it to 6/12 (11am Wednesday).

Syntax: "Set DUE date in 1 WORKING DAYS.

3 questions:

1. Does anyone know how to get Trello to move cards to/reference that new list?

1a. I'm also concerned the dynamic naming {date-1d} may not reference easily. Does anyone have experience with this?

2. The one working day setting - is there a known error with this? Or am I somehow using this wrong?

3. Is there a way to write customisations as pure text using say {} tags instead of Trello's user friendly interface? Understanding this could mean more user error, but it could easier and more powerful.

Brittany Joiner · Answer

@Michael Truong you should be able to reference that newly created list, you'll just need to use the exact same text that you put when you create it. so if you say "Completed {date-1d}" you should be able to say move to "Completed {date-1d}" list, just make sure to do that action _after_ it's created.

I admittedly don't use the -1d that often, but it should work. If you want, you can use {weeknumber} which is what I do when i want to make a new list each week and move over my completed cards.

Here's what my rules look like (you can ignore the last part about moving over random cards from the backlog)