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

Question

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!

Kirk Wang · Answer

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...

Iain Dooley · Answer

@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 · Answer

Hey great idea, I'll give that a try