How to have Butler send a DM in Slack upon action in Trello?

[Jem Inceman]

I'm trying to get Butler to send a DM to the person who has been added to a card in Trello. I haven't succeeded yet. Does anyone know how that should be done?

[Soumyadeep Mandal]

Hi @Jem Inceman ,

Welcome to the community!

Have a look at this power-up: https://trello.com/power-ups/55a5d917446f51777421000a/slack

Check out this articles & documentations:

 https://blog.trello.com/butler-automations-for-slack-jira

https://trello.com/en/platforms/slack

https://slack.com/intl/en-in/help/articles/231967387-Trello-for-Slack

https://help.trello.com/article/1049-slack-app

https://community.slack.com/apps/A074YH40Z-trello?next_id=0

[Jem Inceman]

Hi @Soumyadeep Mandal

I have everything set up and connected Trello with Slack. It can send messages to channels. But I read somewhere that one could also send DMs instead of channel messages. By doing that, I had to fill in the username instead of the channel name, so I did: @{username} but that didn't work. Do you know what I should do so that Slack will send a DM? None of the articles seemed to answer that particular question unfortunately. 

[Soumyadeep Mandal]

Hi @Jem Inceman ,

Read this blog hope it will help you!

https://blog.trello.com/slack-trello-integration-powerup