Mikes Trello Tips - Set Due Reminder with Trello Automation ⚡⏰📅

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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 disabled by default when these methods are used.... (Trello folks, please fix this?!🙏)

Never Fear, Trello automation + API is here 🤖

You can boost your Trello automation with the API and I'm going to show you how to use it to fix this problem! 

Keeping it simple - No API experience required🪄

The Trello API may sound daunting but this guide will give you all the steps you need.  

Simply follow this guide and copy and paste my commands!

Lets Begin...

Part 1 - Setting up your Trello API key and token🔑

This is probably the most complicated part but you only have to do it once and my Trello buddy @Brittany Joiner has made a super simple video to show you how.

Copy both the API key and Token to a safe place, you will need them later...

Part 2 - Understand how the reminders work

This is what you see but if you peek behind the scenes👀, Trello is setting these values in minutes, like below:

• None = -1
• At time of due date = 0
• 5 Minutes before = 5
• 10 Minutes before = 10
• 15 Minutes before = 15
• 1 Hour before = 60
• 2 Hours before = 120
• 1 Day before = 1440
• 2 Days before = 2880

Now you know this important information, my automation is going to show you how to set the reminder to 1 hour before (60), you can change the automation to your preferred choice. 

Part 3 - Create the automation 🗲

Not many people know this but Trello automation includes the ability to issue HTTP requests.  If you're interested in this, look here

But its not important to know about it, just follow my steps.

Step 1 - Create the Trigger

For this, we are going to use the trigger

when a due date is set on a card

Step 2 - Create the Action

1.  Go to the Content Actions Page and scroll to the bottom to find the HTTP request action
   
2. Set the action in the drop down to put to
3. In the URL below,  replace the text PASTEYOURAPIKEYHERE with the API you saved earlier and PASTEYOURTOKENHERE with the Token you saved earlier.\
   
   https://api.trello.com/1/cards/{cardid}?key=PASTEYOURAPIKEYHERE&token=PASTEYOURTOKENHERE
   
4. Copy and paste the URL from number 3 above into the URL field
5. Paste the following payload into the Payload field
   
   {"dueReminder": "60"}
   
   Note: if you want to change the reminder time, here is the place to do it, so if you want it to be 1 day, you can replace 60 with 1440
   
   

Step 3 - Test

We go back to the automation button from the start and see that now when we click it, it is setting the Due Reminder to 1 hour