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How to archive mirror cards?

Bridget Knowles

Forgive my use of slightly incorrect lingo, but if I mirror a 'parent' card to a different board and create a 'child' card, can I write automation that will archive only the 'child' card on the second board, without archiving the 'parent' card on the original board?

I've built an employee schedule board for my department and want to mirror the specific day's schedule of employees on our order fulfillment board, so people know at a glance who is all working that day without having to open the scheduling board as well. I believe I've figured out how to mirror the necessary cards with a due date trigger and would like to write a due date trigger on the fulfillment board to keep the 'today's staff' list updated each day without yesterday's staff cards. I don't believe we will need to reference the 'child' cards again, so a direct to archive option would be ideal. But is that possible without archiving the 'parent' card?

I think I can just create another list such as 'to be archived' or 'previous day's staff' to constantly update my 'today's staff' list as I would like, but I still don't know if I can archive those 'child' cards if they are mirrors, and if I can do so automatically. I do not want to archive the 'parent' cards, as I have written automation that enables us to quickly create future schedules off them in the other board.

It seems like there is an option to hover over the 'child' mirror card without opening it and press c to archive, which should not affect the 'parent' card, but I have not tried this, and would still prefer a way to automatically do this.

Accepted answers

Renato Fagaraz

Hi @Bridget Knowles !

Yep, you can definitely do what you're aiming for. Mirrored cards are treated as separate cards with a special role (the mirror role), and they just have the link to their source card as their title. So, archiving a mirrored card won't affect the original "parent" card at all.

If you want to archive the mirrored cards manually, you can do it by right-clicking on the card and selecting "Archive," or by using the 'c' shortcut, just like you mentioned. Both methods will archive the mirrored card without touching the source card.

For automation, you can set up a rule to archive all cards in a specific list (like your "today's staff" list) at the end of each day or week. This won't affect the source cards on your original board, so you're all good there.

Hope that helps!

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Renato Fagaraz

Hi @Bridget Knowles !

Hope that helps!

Bridget Knowles

@Renato Fagaraz thank you for confirming that I can archive the mirrored cards without it affecting the original cards! I feel like that answers my initial question perfectly. But now I've discovered that I'm having title issues with my mirrored cards as well.

My issue might be bug related based on other community posts I've been going through. The automation I have written to do the mirroring I want works. But when I go to look for the new mirrors, all I have are cards with a URL as the title, not the actual card title I'm trying to mirror. Nor do I get any of the rest of the card info (due dates, custom fields, labels, comments, etc.).

Additionally, all the mirrors end up assigning me as a member on the card, instead of retaining the original members. Is this a bug that will very soon be fixed for everyone? Or is something specifically perhaps not right with my board?

I'm mirroring cards with a different build to them (as in I have different customs fields for each board, I have a checklist on the receiving board but not on the original I'm mirroring from, etc). I've tried other checks I've seen on other people's similar questions. Refreshing does not impact anything, and I have no automations on either board set to automatically create any labels (I only have due date trigger automations). I'm working on seeing if I can become an admin for my company's paid Trello subscription so I can open a ticket, but as of right now that's not something I can do myself.

Renato Fagaraz

Hi @Bridget Knowles !

Good to know the initial issue got solved!

Now, could you double check on the automations on the board? They don't have to specifically add labels, they could be adding members, dates, custom field info, etc, and that would prevent the card from staying as a mirror card and would instead convert it back to a regular card.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TRELLO-927 This bug report might be relevant on the topic!

Bridget Knowles

@Renato Fagaraz I did a quick skim of the bug report, and it makes me think that since all the cards I am mirroring are being generated by automations and buttons that auto change our date, that might be the issue? Curious what you think.

Scheduled automation (used on the recipient board) reads as

- every day at 6:00 pm, archive all the cards in list "Today's Schedule"

Due date automation (used on the generating board) reads as

- on the day a card is due, create a new mirror card with title "{cardlink}" in list "Today's Schedule" on board "G1-Greenhouse"

The two buttons I've created to make our schedule creation easier (on the generating/parent board) are below as well. The card button is basically how most of our cards we will be mirroring will be created, so if that's what's causing the issue, that's a big deal for me.

Card button reads as

- copy the card without comments to the bottom of list "New Cards Holding List", and move the due date to the same day next week

Board button reads as

- copy all the cards in list "Normal Schedule Preferences" to list "New Cards Holding List"

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