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TL:DR TL;DR: 🌊 The beautiful marine ecosystem of the Coral Triangle is heavily impacted by ocean plastic, but the local No Trash Triangle Initiative is giving us real hope. They are successfully working on: * Weekly trash collection from islands for recycling. * River trash barriers to stop the flow into the sea. *…

Are your Trello automations running slower than a broken down car? I am finding that simple automations (1 trigger, 1 action, no conditions) are taking several minutes to trigger I am finding automations with conditions set are taking >10 minutes to trigger and thats if they trigger at all?

Another quirk of Trello automation is that you can't sync dates directly between cards....Until now! Trello automation + API to the rescue again!! Part 1 - Setting up your Trello API key and token🔑 As with all of the Automation + API Articles, this is probably the most complicated part but you only have to do it once and…

Mikes Trello Tips - Parent-Child Card Linking I try to be led by the kind of questions I see being asked on here and many of the questions recently seem to focus on the limitations of advanced checklists. I realised a while back that although checklists are amazing and advanced checklists have taken them 1 step forward.…

Mikes Trello Tips - Calculate a persons age 🧍🏽 I am rubbish with peoples birthdays and ages and have a Trello board to remind me of all the birthdays throughout the year. I added an age custom field but didn't want to keep track of that so today I share an automation to calculate the age based on a persons date of birth…

Hi, This is a question for the moderators I put a lot of time and consideration in my replies on the community to give people the best chance of solving their problems. I have noticed of late that I have responded to a question, seen the page load with my response but then go back later to find there is no response from me…

Did you know that when you set a due date on a card, you can set when it reminds you?🔔 When you set this, it becomes the default for any dates you set So, when a date is added to a card with Automation, power-up, email to board or the Trello API, surely this reminder stays the same, Right?? THINK AGAIN! The reminder is…

Trello Trailblazers @Brittany Joiner and @Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting , together in person for the first time ever to bring you... TrelloCon 2025 😎 We will be joined by the folks behind Trello 🚀 Sneak peeks at upcoming Trello features 🎤 Exclusive talks & workshops with Trello experts 🎉 Fun, games, and giveaways 🍻 Food,…

Mikes Trello Tips Every other Friday, I am going to put up a Trello tip that I hope you will find helpful and will inspire your Trello creativity. Anything is possible in Trello, if you use your imagination 😀 I will alternate between automation and general Trello tips and happy to take requests... This week, I will take…

First things first...If you aren't already a Trello Trailblazer, join today: https://ace.atlassian.com/trello-trailblazers/ Second thing: If you didn't already know, Trello has released Card Mirroring 🪞 https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-articles/Mirror-cards-are-finally-here/ba-p/2934085 We covered this in a…

Have you ever wanted to sync custom fields from 1 card to another on Trello when you move a card, add a label, add a member or mark it as done?? For example, When Card A is moved into List 2, copy the custom field values from Card A to Card B. There is a simple way of doing it with this automation: when a card with custom…

2 separate Clients today talked about ChatGPT4 and asking questions about where this can come into play with Trello. I will be honest, I haven't gotten beneath the hype of it and am yet to figure out whether * Is this a a flash in the pan that will be replaced by the next thing pretty soon? * Is it really as good as the…

On behalf of the Trello Trailblazers, I attended team'24 Europe in Barcelona last month It won't come as a surprise that Trello wasn't high on the agenda from Atlassian's perspective but for the amazing Trello team that were there and for me, it was definitely top of the agenda. There was quite a buzz at the Trello booth.…

Having spent the first 5 months of the year in Central and South America, with very little English spoken in most places we went, my wife and I tried hard to learn a bit of Spanish. My wife put a lot more effort in than I did and was pretty good. At times I felt like I made progress, then someone would try and talk to me…

ace.atlassian.com September 30th 9:00-10:00AM CST JOIN HERE Join @Brittany Joiner and @Dreamsuite Mike for Episode 3 of Mighty Morphin Power-Up ⚡ Rangers series as we dive into specific Power-Ups that help you solve problems in Trello and improve your workflows. We have already covered Getting Data into Trello and…

September 11th 8:00-09:00AM CST JOIN HERE Join @Brittany Joiner and @Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting for Episode 2 of our Mighty Morphin Power-Up ⚡ Rangers series as we dive into specific Power-Ups that help you solve problems in Trello and improve your workflows. In the last episode, we showed you the power-ups that can help…

Having turned 40 in April, I recently came out of the other side of my mid-life crisis this year. I managed to avoid some of common side effects like buying a sports car or motorbike😀. I did however come to realise that there is not a single thing in life more valuable than time and set out on a mission to live each and…

August 8th 8:00-09:00AM CST https://ace.atlassian.com/j/gzwethahs2yuj/ Join us for our new series called Mighty Morphin Power-Up ⚡ Rangers as we dive into specific Power-Ups that help you solve problems in Trello and improve your workflows. In this hour, we'll talk about Power-Ups that help you get information in Trello…

As many people here know very well, I left my normal working life and home country of UK in 2022 and moved to a semi-nomadic life, with a focus on my true passion, the natural world and conservation...It is now my life and am close to reaching the perfect balance of work, nature and conservation. My wife and I started our…

Does this world need more Trello? We definitely think so! Join @Brittany Joiner and I in Atlassian's only Community Events Group dedicated entirely to Trello Trello Trailblazers Who should join? You won't find any collaborator limits here... 😁 Absolutely anyone can join: * Fellow Trello obsessives - Think of this as a…

From May 20th, if you're over the 10 collaborator limit in your workspace, your Trello boards will be locked as read-only until you either upgrade or bring the number back down to 10 or less. This was announced here back on March4th but time has a habit of flying by so the day has arrived There are still a lot of questions…

ACE Solent UK Presents - Trello Deadline Day Livestream Navigate the changes with @Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting & @Brittany Joiner https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/trello-solent-uk-presents-20th-may-trello-free-deadline-day-how-to-navigate-the-change * Back in March, Trello announced that free workspaces would be…

Mikes Trello Tips - 🧮 Round Custom Field Number Up⬆️ or Down ⬇️ Following on from Mikes-Trello-Tips: Automation to truncate a numeric custom field... This is a very quick article showing how to round a number up or down in Trello using automations and regex. For this to make sense, please first read the article above!! ☝🏽…

Mikes (quick) Trello Tips - Expand/Collapse Shortcuts I kinda stumbled across this today because I hoped it would be there and it turns out it does exist: Expand/Collapse a single list: \ key Expand/Collapse all lists: shift+\ key See the video below for more...

Well it does and you can have a look at the issues that have been raised. You can also watch, vote and comment on issues.... https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/TRELLO This is super handy and gives a little insight into what is happening with Trello behind the scenes at Atlassian. It is also a great place to exercise…

Hello, is anyone else finding that Trello automations are running really slowly? I'm talking like > 5 minutes to run a simple automation like add a label. If anyone else is having an issue let me know and if it's more than just me, I'll raise a support request