Automate cover color with additional triggers?

[Rowe_ Jordan]

Hi all!

I'm wondering if there is a way to automate changing a cover color when certain triggers are met, such as when the card is marked complete, when a card changes to due soon, when a card contains certain words in the title, when a label is added to a card, etc. I know you can do this with the labels that are colored, but I'm hoping to do it with covers. It's a lot of clicks to go in to select the due date, select the label, and then add a cover on top of that.

[Josh Bettinger]

Sort of copying an answer from another thread, but if you have API access there is a sort of work around that I have set up through Butler. Right now I have my board set up that if a particular label is applied to a card then the card will change its cover color.

(apologies I dont know the best way to format this in the comments)

You can try:

Create a rule. Set the trigger as "when [label] is added to a card"

Put to URL : "https://api.trello.com/1/cards/{cardid}"

With Payload: "{"key" : "[your api key]","token" : "[your api token]", "cover" : {"color" : "purple"}}"

It takes a moment but this seemed to work for myself and other users on my board.

[Mike]

Not quite yet, but our team is looking into it, and we hope that's something we'll be able to add to Butler soon!

[Craig Thomler]

Please - I also need it.

[Veronica D]

Same need in this post!
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-automate-cover-colors/qaq-p/1395396

[Patrick Wallace]

@Mike   - define soon?