How to create a rule to remove checked items on checklist

Lucas Fantin

I have a list called "Today's Tasks," and within it, there's a card with the same name. Inside this card, there's a checklist.

What I would like to do is create a rule that, every day at midnight, removes the items that have already been completed from the checklist and keeps those that haven't been completed yet.

If someone could help, I would be thankful.

Mat_w4y9na

Hi Lucas, welcome to the Trello Community!

Thanks for explaining your use case in more detail. I have come up with a solution but it requires two Automations that work together. I also needed to create a new list called Yesterday's Tasks, which I will use for my first Scheduled automation.

Basically this is how your card will look like when it's in the Today's Tasks list:

For my Scheduled automation, this will run every day at midnight, and it will move the Today's Tasks card to the Yesterday's Tasks list. This is with the context that there is only one card named Today's Tasks within this board:

Once that card is moved to Yesterday's Tasks list, this will then trigger the Rule automation that will know if a card named "Today's Tasks" has been moved to this list, it will then remove all completed/checked items from the card's checklist. Once they are removed, the card is then moved back to the Today's Tasks list. 

If you are wondering what the {checklistname} is, it is an automation variable that you can use when you don't include a specific checklist name. 

I hope this helps, but let us know if you have any questions!
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