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Automation Placeholders Usage

Jose Saldaña_e74u51

Hi im trying to create an automation that creates a card mirror on another board if a card is placed on a list and has a certain custom field value on one of its custom fields.

I have a name convention on my boards that have a "ProjectName - SpecificCustomfieldValue" format.

Im trying to figure out how the automation placeholders work and their limitations for example i set this up like:

when a card id added to list "En Proceso", create a new mirror card with title "{cardlink}" in list "Nuevo" on board "{cardboardname} - {customfieldvalue}"

On custom field value, do i need to type a specific custom field value id or something like that so that it picks a value from a custom field list?

Im trying to match the board name in this way so it creates the card's mirror on that specific board and list.

Is this possible?

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DiMaggio Tucci

Hey, Jose! I hope I'm understanding you correctly.

Let's say you have a custom field called Color

The way to reference the value of Color is using this format: {{%Color}}

Use Custom Fields in automation

Is that what you needed?

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DiMaggio Tucci

Hey, Jose! I hope I'm understanding you correctly.

Let's say you have a custom field called Color

The way to reference the value of Color is using this format: {{%Color}}

Use Custom Fields in automation

Is that what you needed?

Jose Saldaña_e74u51

OK if i want to specify which color, how do I choose the specific value.

For example my custom field is list named Department and the value i want is ITSupport

would it be

DiMaggio Tucci

@Jose Saldaña What you're looking for then is to only run the automation if the custom field is a specific value? Then you would need to specify that in the automation trigger so it only triggers when the field is that value.

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Otherwise, if that's not what you meant, doing {{%Department}} gives you the value, so I wouldn't understand why you would need to specify anything else.

Jose Saldaña_e74u51

I understand I can trigger with custom field values and that is helpful, but what im actually trying to do is to automate how trello finds specific boards when i want to mirror cards. That's why im trying to use naming conventions for my boards to see if this is possible.

What im trying to do is if i have a board named "projectname - departmentname"

Im trying to use the variables to mimic the name so the automation knows on which board to create the card's mirror.

for example:

"{cardboardname} - {{%customfieldname}}"

to mimic my board naming convention

"projectname - department"

since the the custom field im trying to use is a list with the different department names that we set when creating the card, that is why im trying to see if this is possible.

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