How to find the next card in a list with Butler Power Up

Deleted user July 21, 2020

I have my Done List on my main board. I also have several project boards that feed into the main board, as I'm usually working on multiple projects at any given time.

I would love to use the Butler PowerUp with the trigger "when card with {ProjectLable} is moved to the Done list on Main Board" and the action "Find next card in {ProjectList} on {CategoryBoard} and move to Incoming Tasks list on Planning Board." Text in brackets to vary given the specific project.

I could use due dates, but then project tasks build up and get pushed back and shoved into another list that is getting pretty unwieldy. I'd rather not use Command Builder/Butler Bot, since that's no longer supported.

If there isn't a way to use the PowerUp, is there a work around?

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Iain Dooley
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July 21, 2020

@[deleted] when you say "next card" in this context, do you just mean the top card in the list that has the given label?

Deleted user July 21, 2020

That is exactly what I mean. I tried linking cards as attachments in a chain, only that got messed up when I decided to change the order of the cards around.

Iain Dooley
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July 21, 2020

@[deleted] hmm the find and lookup actions in the Cascade tab don't seem to have any filtering options so you can't pick a card from a list. This Trellinator function would do it:

https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/d81e5f3881de68c071bd5122c9fc719b

I think the real function would need some tweaks because I don't think you literally mean "Project Label" and "Project Board" and so on. You can read about Trellinator here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Introducing-Trellinator-Automate-Trello-with-Google-Apps-Script/ba-p/925271

Setting it up in Google Apps Script is a bit cumbersome, but I'm building a hosted version called BenkoBot, but it doesn't support "triggers" yet, only ad-hoc code execution, so for example you could test out just the "action" part using BenkoBot:

https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/5c430ca3fcdeb4c9e3696109b25f5bba

by running it here:

https://app.benkobot.com/

Although I still think that it would need some tweaking because I think that you actual board name isn't "Project Board" and actual label name isn't "Project Label" and so on

Deleted user July 22, 2020

I was just using generic names because there is more than one project and more than one board involved. The Trellinator looks like fun, but I really don't have a lot of time to play around with it. That's why I was hoping there's an option within the Butler PowerUp, itself.

Thanks, anyway!

Iain Dooley
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July 22, 2020

@[deleted] cool well if you do want to go ahead with it I write this type of stuff for my clients, or you can just hire someone on upwork to do it, Trellinator is open source:

http://docs.trellinator.com/

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