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How can I gate or restrict moving a card to a new column according to user permissions or roles?

jccockre
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February 11, 2019

Let's say I have three columns, State 1, State 2, and State 3.

I want only user Alice to be able to move a card from State 1 to State 2, but only user Bob to be able to move a card from State 2 to State 3.

Or it could be done at the level of role or group permission, i.e. only Developers can move a card from State 1 to State 2, but only Testers can move it from State 2 to State 3.

Is there a power-up or configuration option that will facilitate this behavior?

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Iain Dooley
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February 12, 2019

@jccockre here is a Trellinator script that would allow you to configure who is allowed to move from designated lists or into designated lists:

https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/7b743ecdf7c7c40e21a3827c73201af9

Your permission board would have a bunch of lists with names like "into Stage 3" and "from Stage 1" with one card per person allowed to take that action -- the default will just be to allow the move if there are no permissions set, and the user would receive a notification that they weren't allowed to do that action.

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February 12, 2019

Hi Jason,

 

Unfortunately, Trello doesn't currently support that level of granularity in permission. Once someone has access to a board, they have full access to that board, but I'll be sure to let the team know this is something you'd like to see in the future!

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November 15, 2019

I got a same requirement. There should be an option for role based access to lists and cards, without it would be a challenge in setting up workflows.

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Poochee Yuen March 11, 2021

How about only members in the card can move the card?

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Travis Austin March 16, 2021

Role-based permissions is the way to go here! Would make everybody's lives 1000 times easier with large teams

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April 3, 2021

Yeah, we have the same need. I think intuitively we should have a setting where only people added to a given card can move the card. Otherwise the entire adding-member-to-card functionality seems pretty useless if it's just a decorative mailing list thing...

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Gerente General
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September 11, 2021

I would like to have a Scrum Lead role that can move cards around, while assignees can only edit within the card, but are not allowed to move them, building up accountability

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May 3, 2024

Just in case anyone stumbles across this in future, i came up with a workable solution for my small business whereby i wanted to prevent people moving cards in to a users "in progress" list directly rather than their "to do" list.

I created an automation rule stating:

Trigger

"when a card is added to the list '[USER] In Progress' by anyone except [USERID]"

Action

"move the card to bottom of list [USER] To Do"

 

This concept might work if you build up enough automation rules, however this is likely not a workable solution for a board with numerous members/large organisation

Jason Vojack
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July 17, 2024

TA -

Great solution for small groups as you state.

I am posting to thank you...

and to add to the list of users requiring this feature - on/off controls for restricting movement of cards by member.

 

*****Atlassian please hear our call!*****

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Cole Paul Andrew
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March 11, 2019

I have the opposite problem, I want to move a card to another board and it won't let me

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