Mark your cards complete - due dates are no longer required in Trello! (Coming Soon)

[#1]

We are thrilled to announce an exciting update coming soon to the mark complete feature in Trello. Soon due dates will no longer be required!

'Mark it complete' allows you to update the status of a card with a single click, wherever you are in Trello. When you mark a card complete the status is clearly visible on the card front from any view across all of your devices. This feature will work for most cards including Link Cards and Mirror Cards!

   

If you don't want to mark cards complete on a particular board, board admins can adjust the board setting to hide the check circle on the card front for all board members. 

Want to learn more? Check out our docs! 

EDIT: We've heard your feedback about the strikethru treatment on card title and have made a change. We are removing the strikethru, keeping the check mark, and adjusting the text color slightly to add a second visual indicator to differentiate complete cards from incomplete cards. You should see the change reflected soon. 

[Rasmus Wulff Jensen]

Yay... Have been waiting for something like this forever 👍👍👍

[Brittany Joiner]

Yessss going to be even more satisying to tick those items off. And no need for automation to do it all for me 😂

[Kelly Gabel]

Nice! I am glad to see that this can be turned on and off per board, as there are definitely situations where it's handy and others where it might just get in the way! 

[Rasmus Wulff Jensen]

And now a bit of sadness after seeing how the feature is actually implemented behind the scenes ☹️☹️☹️

It is essentially just setting the dueComplete field to "true", meaning it is not recording a "completed" date/time anywhere on the card that we can use for reporting (aka what I've been really waiting for)

Granted; there is an activity action generated but its type is just the generic "updateCard" making them extremely expensive to read via the API for any sort of "Done Cards" reporting 😭

So, here is some feedback to make this feature more useable:

1. Please Include a new field called "completed" on the cards that records the date/time of completion (just like start and due fields exist)... or if impossible add a new action with the type "cardCompleted" that we can filter actions on for reporting
2. It would be nice if the "show completed status on card front" could be overridden on the list level (it just feels wrong to see the option in "Inbound" and "backlog" list types where you know they need to first be moved to some "in progress" list before they make sense to mark as done)
3. I've already answered the first 5 community questions on why their cards had then new option and strike-through text making it hard to read so please add an option to choose if the text is strike-through or not for completed cards (for certain people strikethrough text is easy to read, while for others it is almost impossible)

[Reinder Visser]

Great to see the many improvements! Agree with Rasmus' comment on not also striking through the titles for completed cards, this works great on a to-do but not so good when you work together and someone else would like to read the card that got completed. Having the big green check mark is already very clear.

[Kelly Gabel]

I have to be honest...jury is still out for me on this. I didn't realize that being able to mark a card complete would mean that I can't mark a due date complete anymore. A little thing, but that is such a part of my process. 

I'm also not yet seeing any of this on my Android mobile device even though the docs say it should work there as well.

I want to echo the statement above about not loving that the title is strikethrough when complete. The green checkmark is more than sufficient and I don't like the strikethrough

Also, I guess it was my confusion, but I thought we would be able to turn the feature off and on per board, but it appears that we can hide the checkmark on the front of the card, but the functionality is there regardless (ie, can't mark a due date complete)

Much of this is just me getting used to a different version of similar functionality, but just sharing my initial thoughts!

[Kyle Burns]

The strikethrough on the title is a rolling complaint within our company already

[Alex]

@Rasmus Wulff Jensen @Reinder Visser @Kelly Gabel @Kyle Burns - Thank you for your candor here. (This is why I love the community!) We've heard your feedback and are planning to address the strikethru ASAP. Please look for an update in the coming day(s). 

RE: Android - the feature is rolling out across platforms (web, desktop, and mobile). Mobile roll out has not started yet but will be coming soon as well. Please stay tuned :-) 

[RBB213]

The strikethrough is horrible! I use Trello to track various resources that I repeat (books, courses, etc.) so striking through the title of the card makes it very hard to read. I agree with previous comments that the green checkmark is sufficient. I preferred the box to check off the due date so please bring that option back. For those who like the strikethrough, then please give us the option to mark a due date complete without striking through the text.

[Abhishek Bendre]

Please get rid of the strikethru feature! :( My staff are all complaining 

[Brittany Joiner]

@Alex overall, I actually like the change! Some automation feedback here though, i would expect to see the automation trigger look a little different since "complete" isnt necessarily associated with completing a due date anymore, so i would expect to see this trigger for "when a card  is completed" maybe on card changes instead of in the due date section .

Also, do we know how this will impact existing automation? ie, if i have automation that marks a due date as complete, or watches for a due date being marked complete, will those still work? 

[Kelly Gabel]

@Alex , like Brittany, I'm warming to the change. I still don't like the strikethrough of the card title, but seeing how this interplays with my existing recurring tasks, it doesn't seem like much has truly changed on the practical front. @Brittany Joiner , my existing automations seem to be running just fine even though the verbiage in the workflow set up still refers to due dates being complete.

I would, also, expect to see changes to the wording in the workflow building because those just creating fresh workflows may be confused with the reference to due date completion when it's now actually card completion.

[Brittany Joiner]

@Kelly Gabel thats good to hear - one of my workspace has the change, but the one where i have a majority of my automation doesn't have the change yet so i couldn't tell for sure 😂

Im a little shocked about the strikethrough feedback myself - felt like a natural thing to do since that's how checklist items are handled. I guess maybe it works for checklist items but not card titles!

[Kelly Gabel]

@Brittany Joiner  Ya I was super worried about my existing workflows, but pleasantly surprised!

I like the strikethrough for checklist items, but mostly because I hide completed items 😅 

For whatever reason, a strikethrough makes it feel more cluttered-looking to me. I can see how some might like it, though. Perhaps there is a compromise to male it an optional setting? 

[Alex]

@Brittany Joiner and @Kelly Gabel - We are working on adjusting the automations too! We will update the language and move the trigger and actions to Card Changes since that does seem to make the most sense with this latest update.. We're also planning on adding new automations for scheduled rules and buttons too. :-) 

[Brittany Joiner]

@Alex thanks!! excited for that!

[Rasmus Wulff Jensen]

My hope/suggestion how this feature turn out in the end give the huge negative out-cry from the community in all directions (given up trying to answer them all 🥵):

Instead of a rebrand of the Due complete: make 2 checkboxes... One for the Due-date that works like it always have.

And then add a new optional one that indicate if the work/card is done (with a timestamp on card indication when it was done for reporting + if it should show up in "My Card" on the Home page)

[Heather Bennett]

Thank you for the directions to turn off this feature as it is highly distracting and we have our own method for completing items.

I am the administrator, but do not see the "Show complete status on card front" or "Reduce Motion" options. Please advise.

[Matthew Martin]

I agree that the strikethrough of the title is overkill when you mark the whole card complete with "green".

Also, you guys need to rethink the implementation of the whole "slide" out feature for the option to mark the card complete. You essentially took space away from the card title so you can have the slide out function, so in essence you made the character count for the first line smaller (small issue, but annoying).

The main issue is the slide feature. It is super slow and why would I want to wait that long to mark the card complete when I could have done it by just clicking on the date assigned like before.

Not a good feature rollout, you should provide the option to use this or not

[Robin Warren _Blue Cat Reports_]

To add to the strikethrough comments, the text jumping around as I'm scrolling is horrible. Really hard to read the cards and very distracting if I'm trying to read something else. Please reconsider that.

[Vongsawat]

Agree with the text jumping being very distracting. Especially when I mouse-over and am reading the card, before clicking on it. Makes the card unreadable for a bit.

Would prefer if the tick box had a fixed location, perhaps just very faded when incomplete? With it just being a question of where to put it. 

Kind of looking forward to trying this out, even though we'd figured out a workflow with tags instead.

Very important though: what's the hotkey to mark a card complete? We rely heavily on tagging via hotkey in board view to trigger automations, and marking a card complete seems completely in-line with that that surely it should have a hotkey?

[kmccay]

I don't like that this feature was turned on automatically. That is not a feature we need, so now we have to manually turn it off on each board.

[Anne M_]

This feature is not useful to me, since my cards are not mostly task items, and I already have a solid system for moving them through my process.
I would love to turn this off universally in my account!
I read about how I could turn it off for individual boards in the board settings menu. I've now had to repeat that process for the third morning in a row as it seems to reset overnight!
I can see how many people might like this function; fair enough. Just give those of us using Trello in other ways an easy and permanent way to opt out.

[Alex]

@Anne M_ You should not have to reset the board setting. It is saved to the board and should persist. It also affects the card front experience for all board members so other members won't see the check circle to mark a card complete via the card front if it is turned off (no check). All board admins are able to adjust the setting as well. Please reach out to support if you are having to reset and know it is not another board admin adjusting the setting so we can investigate further. 

[Kate Baucherel]

Absolutely hating this new feature! The way that all the cards move as you mouse around the screen is intensely distracting. I would like an option of a static interface so that the task lists do not move, but I can still check off dates when required. Also half of my tasks are not date related and my process for task completion is to move to the correct bucket for future review and as a historical record. And I cnnot find how to turn this off in board settings.