How to create a list of lists

[David O_Brien]

I regularly have cards that include 2 or 3 separate checklists, each of which displays %complete as I check off completed items. I would like to add a "Summary" list of sorts that aggregates the %complete of the other lists.

The result would be something like:

Summary: 50%

List-1: 50%

<list of tasks>

List-2: 20%

<list of tasks>

List-3: 80%

<list of tasks>

Any idea how can do this? Thanks a lot.

[Brittany Joiner]

Any reason you're not using checklists? I think this might be what you prefer is creating a card with what you might call List-1 and then add the list of tasks as checklist items and you'll be able to see how much of the checklist has been completed on the front of the card. 

Doesn't help for keeping track of progress, but if you do want to keep them in lists and want to style the different sections, there's a few UI things you could do.

You can type ----- as a card name to create separator cards. 

And you can also use card covers to create "headers" for a section of cards!

[David O_Brien]

"Any reason you're not using checklists?"

I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting, because I am using checklists, and I want to create a "checklist of checklists" or more correctly a running total of how much of several checklists have been achieved. I'll read it again to see if I can sort it out.

Thank you.

[Renato Fagaraz]

Hi @David O_Brien !

There isn't a native way of achieving this, but there are some API tools made available that could help you there since tracking checklists can be done: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/trello/rest/api-group-checklists/#api-group-checklists

Before diving into the API too much, though, I'd recommend checking the Power-Up gallery. Different Trello enthusiasts might have already developed it, and you could just use what they built.

Hopefully this helps!

https://trello.com/power-ups/search?q=checklist

[David O_Brien]

Thanks Renato. I'll investigate both of those options.

Regards,

David