I want to change the completed status of several checklist items on cards with the same name on

[Ayoade ADERELE]

I have:

1. created a card with a checklist on it
2. copied the card to multiple lists
3. created new cards from one of the checklists into a new list called common tasks

I now need to update the completed status of the checklist items on each list by updating the completed status of the corresponding card in the list called common tasks

[Brittany Joiner]

@Ayoade ADERELE welcome to the community! I'm a little confused about exactly what you're looking for, but i think its basically syncing cards and checklists, right? I made a couple videos about this!

And...

[Ayoade ADERELE]

Hallo Brittany,

Thanks for these.

I have reviewed the first of your videos, but will now go through the second

[Ayoade ADERELE]

Hallo again Brittany,

To be more specific, here is the challenge I am working on

I have a board that has Two cards with the same name on the first 2 lists as shown in Board Snippet1.

Each of the two has the same checklist on them as shown in Board Snippet2.

I want to be able to set the Completed Status on a card with the same name in Board Snippet1.

This is the rule I have created:

when the due date is marked as complete in a card in list "Common Activities", find a card titled "{triggercardname}" on board "{boardname}", for each checklist item in a checklist named "TestCheckList", check item "TestCheckItem"

However it only works on the first checklist and then stops.

How do I set it to go through all the checklists on the board that have the same name?

[Ayoade ADERELE]

@Brittany Joiner This is just to call your attention to my responses.

Thanks for your help thus far

[Brittany Joiner]

@Ayoade ADERELE thanks for the tag! I didn't see responses til you tagged me. 

Could you use the check all the items in all the checklists of a card action? 

[Ayoade ADERELE]

Sorry @Brittany Joiner I forgot to tag you...New to this :-)

I will try this, but I suspect what I need is something that will:

check all lists for a particular checklist and tag an item on the lists

[Brittany Joiner]

@Ayoade ADERELE hmm, yeah that is tough. I'm not entirely sure since there's not a way that i know of to iterate through checklists. 

I wonder if they were all named the same thing if that would work? Could you make all the checklists have the same name?

[Ayoade ADERELE]

@Brittany Joiner  Yes, they all have the same name.

The cards are all named TestCard 

The checklists are all named TestCheckList

The items are all named TestCheckItem

Thanks

[Ayoade ADERELE]

@Brittany Joiner I guess what I am looking for is to be able to iterate through the lists looking for cards with the same name

[Brittany Joiner]

@Ayoade ADERELE i think your rule

find a card titled "{triggercardname}" on board "{boardname}",

is doing that right? Looking for other cards with the same name?

[Ayoade ADERELE]

@Brittany Joiner Correct. However, it finds the first of such cards, performs the required action and ends. How do I get it to look for more of such cards with the same name

[Brittany Joiner]

@Ayoade ADERELE ah okay, i thought you were saying it only did the first checklist. i think i see what you mean now, but im not sure i can help 😭

I will say that i think you're looking at using the multiplier concept, which i haven't used yet. 

You can learn more about it here!

[Ayoade ADERELE]

@Brittany Joiner Thanks for this tip. I will try it and let you know how things go

[Brittany Joiner]

@Ayoade ADERELE good luck!! you've got this!!

[Ayoade ADERELE]

@Brittany Joiner Thanks for your encouragement; I found a way to make it work as I want.

Although it's not as elegant a solution as I would have liked since it may require too much pre-setup of the automation.

Here it is, perhaps you can show me a better way:

when the due date is marked as complete in a card in list "Common Activities", find a card titled "TestCard" in list "Payments Facilitation" on board "{boardname}", check item "TestCheckItem", find a card titled "TestCard" in list "Agency Services" on board "{boardname}", check item "TestCheckItem", find a card titled "TestCard" in list "Insurance & Micropension" on board "{boardname}", for each checklist item in a checklist named "TestCheckList", check item "TestCheckItem"

Turns out that I have to explicitly describe each checklist on each card to make things work

[Brittany Joiner]

@Ayoade ADERELE yeah i don't have any better ideas other than the multiplier, which i am assuming you tried and didn't work.