Creating a Checklist from A item in another Checklist

Matt Juric

I'm using a card-button to automatically create a "Top level" checklist. I know I can create all the other checklists individually but is there a way to create the "Sub level" checklists from the "Top level"? Something like

"For each check list item in checklist X, create checklist, add item to checklist...."?

 

So for instance if I create a checklist like this

Checklist A

Item 1

Item 2

Item 3

Can I then automatically look at this check list and create something like this.

Checklist Item 1

Do Stuff Item 1A

Do Stuff Item 1B

Do Stuff Item 1C

 

Checklist Item 2

Do Stuff Item 2A

Do Stuff Item 2B

Do Stuff Item 2C

 

Checklist Item 3

Do Stuff Item 3A

Do Stuff Item 3B

Do Stuff Item 3C

 

Thank You.

Hannah Humbert - Simpla Workflows

Hi, @Matt Juric Trello doesn't offer the ability to add a checklist item underneath another checklist item, however, you can create a sort of parent-child hierarchy with 3 levels using linked checklist items. This is useful if you need to add more information to the checklist items like descriptions, comments, or another layer of checklists.

This is what it looks like if you're not familiar:


Using butler, you can set this up so any item you add to your "Tasks" checklist will automatically generate a new linked card. From there, you can add another checklist within your "task" cards.

This will generate more cards on your board, but if you're on Premium, you can collapse the list to keep things a bit tidier or use the collapsed lists chrome extension if you're using Trello free/standard.

If this looks like a viable solution for you, I'd be happy to share more info around how to set it up!