Help Needed with Automating Mirror Card Archiving in Trello Standard

[Carl Boileau]

Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded to Trello's Standard plan to use the mirror card feature across my boards. While this feature is great for synchronizing tasks, I’m facing an issue that I can’t seem to solve on my own.

The issue:

When I archive a mirror card in the destination board, the original card remains active in the source board. I was hoping that archiving a mirror card in one board would automatically archive its linked versions in the other boards.

My question:

Has anyone successfully automated the archiving of mirror cards across boards? Is there a specific configuration or workaround I might be missing?

Context:

I use multiple boards to manage my workflow, and mirror cards are essential for keeping tasks synchronized. The inability to automate archiving is causing friction in my process, and I’d love to hear how others have tackled this.

Thanks in advance for your help! I’d appreciate any guidance or solutions you can share.

Best,

[DiMaggio Tucci]

Just set an automation to archive the original card when you archive the mirror. The name of a mirror card is the link to the original card, so this is easy to do!

when a card is archived on the board

find a card with link "{cardname}"

archive the card

The great thing about this approach is, even if the card is not a mirror, then the automation will just fail and you'll still be able to archive the non-mirror card.

[DiMaggio Tucci]

I'd like to add that I've gotten confirmation from a Trello developer that this is a bug. My solution will work in the meantime until they fix it.

[Caity]

Hi, just want to clarify that it's not a bug that the original card is not archived if the mirror card is archived. That's intended behavior, because you might not want the mirror card on your board anymore even if the original is still in use.

For anyone who always wants archived state to stay in sync, the automation you've suggested to sync the archived state is the recommended way to achieve this.

[DiMaggio Tucci]

@Caity Thanks for the clarification! I'm guessing the "bug" was related to other types of automations but NOT the archive action, then? 

[Caity]

I'm actually not sure which bug you're referring to—can you share more?

[Carl Boileau]

@DiMaggio Tucci,

Thank you for the great tip! Your solution worked well for automatically archiving the original card when the mirror card is archived.

However, I now have the opposite issue:
When I archive a card in its original board, the mirror card in the destination board still appears, but in an "archived" state. Ideally, I would like the mirror card to be automatically removed from the destination board when the original is archived.

Is there a way to automate this so that when the original card is archived, its mirror version is also deleted or hidden from the destination board?

Thanks in advance for your help! 😊

Best,

[DiMaggio Tucci]

@Carl Boileau 

I think you could do the opposite.

find a card named {cardlink}

However, you would need to know the board the mirror is on unless you do some sort of more complicated automation that writes that to the original card.