Splitting multiple tasks from one email-to-board card?

[Kirk Wang]

I’m wondering if this is even possible.  I’m getting an email to board card that contains this:

Course Reserves - BookChapter
*53105*
*53105*
Ares Item ID: 53105
Title:
Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health
Article Title:
Chapters 2,6,7,13 and 15
Author:
Aschengrau, Ann

Books, BLB Floor2
WA 950 A813e 2014

Class:
FMPH101(FMPH 101 - Epidemiol)
Semester:
Spring 2020
Instructor:
So, And So

Format: BookChapter
Pages: Chapters 2,6,7,13 and 15
Needed by:
Course Reserves - BookChapter
*53638*
*53638*
Ares Item ID: 53638
Title:
No Fixed Points / DANCE IN THE 20TH CENTURY Nancy Reynolds and Malcoim McCormick /YALE University Press Article Title:
Chapter 17- Dance in the movies
Author:

Geisel Floor 6
GV1619 .R49 2003

Class:
TDGE11(TDGE 11 - Great Perf)

Great Performances on Film
Semester:
Spring 2020
Instructor:
So, And So

Format: BookChapter
Pages:
Needed by: week 1

These are two tasks I need to track.

• Is it possible to split this into two card?  
• What if there were more than 2 tasks?
• Is there some way to make a loop to look for “Course Reserves - BookChapter“?

TIA!

[Iain Dooley]

@Kirk Wang this Trellinator command would split the description when set on a card based on the "Course Reserved" text, and create a task for each one linked back to the original card:

https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/d594de93338e70c39cb54399d2534c67

You can read more about Trellinator here:

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

You might also like this thing I created to use Trello as an email client, so you could send your replies to people directly from the task cards as you move them through the on-boarding process:

http://www.benkodesk.com/

[Kirk Wang]

Wow that's pretty awesome, I'll have to check out Trellinator.  I did figure out a way of doing it in Butlerbot which involved way too many wildcards, but hey it works...

[Antonio Panea]

Hi @Kirk Wang ,

I think the best way to solve this by using Zapier email parse.

Zapier could be a good tool for that. It would work like that:

Resend automatically your emails to Email Parse Inbox --> Extract the data --> Trigger when an email is received --> Filtering to "Do this or That" depending on the data you extract.

If you need more info feel free to ask!

Thanks

[Kirk Wang]

Hey great idea, I'll give that a try