Mac: How to get a red badge on dock icon

[Martin Nitsche]

I use the desktop app for Trello on the Mac. There is the option "Badge on Dock Icon" in the preference. I switched that on. But I do not see a red badge. Never. I would like to have a red badge when one of the cards (maybe cards with my name on it) has a due date which is overdue. So when I have 7 overdue cards the badge would show 7. I this possible?

[Iain Dooley · Accepted solution]

@Martin Nitsche you may still need to enable it in the OSX preferences as well as Trello preferences:

[Martin Nitsche]

Thanks, @Iain Dooley for the idea, but they are activated. The problem must be somewhere else...

[Iain Dooley]

@Martin Nitsche well, when I have that enabled and I receive a new notification, I see the badge app icon go red in the dock until I view the app, but it goes away even if I don't read the notification.

You receive a notification 24 hours prior to a due date on a card to which you are subscribed/watching, so maybe it's just that the timing of it is such that, at the time those notifications are received, you're looking at the app and therefore never see the badge.

[Martin Nitsche]

OK, Iain, maybe I understood the whole concept of the badge wrong. My idea would be, that it should work like let's say the badge on reminders on Mac: The badge shows the number of overdue tasks. If I understand you right, Trello use it in a different way, not the number of overdue tasks but as a copy of the notification in their app/on their website. This is not what I want/need, but I fear there is no way to change that behavior (beside someone from Trello reads this and changes the programming of the app). But thanks for your help!

[Iain Dooley]

@Martin NitscheYes that's right, it's just an alert that there are unread notifications available. I think if you have the dock enlarged it might give you a number, but that would only be the number of unread notifications since you last looked.

[Iain Dooley]

@Martin Nitsche BTW if this helped can you please mark the answer as accepted? I base my entire self worth and sense of purpose in life on how many badges I get in the Atlassian community, thanks.

[Marco Fanelli]

Hi! I have one question:

The red icon is not shown when there is a new notification on a card? Because I have activated the badge in system preferences and also in Trello preferences but it doesn't appear.

I would like to see a red badge icon when I get a new notification.