How do I write a trigger to add a label when cards are added on specific days of the week (Ex: Tues)

Question

How do I write an automation trigger to add a specific label when cards are added on specific days of the week (Ex: Tues)? This will be helpful to my team as different tasks are performed on different days. Most triggers I see are based on due date, not creation date.

Sarah Oyen · Answer

@Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting , is there any way to accomplish this without the additional of weekday labels? I would love a solution that sources "created on" dates.

Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting · Answer

Hi @Sarah Oyen

Welcome to the community, I can help with this.  There is a way to do it but would need you to have labels for the days of the week and create a base automation that adds a weekday label to the card...

Step 1

Create colorless labels for each day then use these automations:

Step 2 - Automation

when a card is added to the board, add the "{weekdayname}" label to the card

Step 3 - Your automations

Now you can make automations to add the label you want to cards, using the trigger above.  Here is an example:

when the label "regex:/Monday|Wednesday|Friday/" is added to a card, add the "Team A" label to the card

I hope this helps.  Feel free to come back if you have more questions or problems.

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