Hey everyone
I am very new to working with APIs but have used Trello for a long time. At my workplace, I have got my team using Trello to manage our tasks. I'm responsible for producing a weekly report on the progress of said tasks. Currently I do that using a connection with Bridge24, a filter within Bridge24 to export to Excel. Then I use Get&Transform to query the export to produce what I want. This is a fairly complicated way of doing it, but now it's set up, isn't too time consuming.
What I really want to do is use Trello's API and plug that into Microsoft Power BI and have the data from Trello refresh instantly.
I have been experimenting and can get certain information into PowerBI as a query from data source type "web".
When I'm researching and looking for answers, I see a lot of posts that say something along the lines of: "you need to call this and then call this". Is this done in one long URL, or do I need to make multiple URLs and string them together somehow (in PowerBI, blank query and use PHP or something?
I have many questions but I'll start with this one first!
Thanks for reading.
@Dean RowntreeUsually, when you use the Trello API, you can get some information in a single call (i.e. using a single URL). However for more advanced reporting, you'd need multiple calls like: Get all cards on a board. Then for each card, get some information.
This would require some programming from your end.
@Dean Rowntree You might like to try this framework I wrote for automating Trello with Google Apps Script:
It dramatically simplifies the task of creating complex automations, including reporting. It's loosely based on the work from this guy:
http://www.littlebluemonkey.com/blog/automated-trello-reporting-using-google-spreadsheets
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Thanks @Iain Dooley, I have previously seen the Little Blue Monkey post you linked but that seemed too vague, or assumed I need to know a lot more, for me to know where to start.
I am interested in your post and will look at setting that up with my personal account first and see what I can achieve.
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