What activity counts towards "last modified?"

[Brontie Masero]

I want to make a dash card that shows how many cards on my board got a new comment in the last week. Or any activity really, a new comment, movement, complete a checklist item, etc.

I set up a simple dash card that looks at the board it's on, last modified this week, and it found only one card (I know there's been more activity than that). I did a little testing, and a comment on a card didn't affect my dash card. So far, I found that adding/removing a member or moving the card affects it. That's nice, but I need to see comments or checklist activity.

At this point, I'm looking either for a list of activities that "last modified" will track or any ideas someone might have for how I could track comments and checklist activities. Thank you!

[Lara · Accepted solution]

Hi Brontie,

Thanks for reaching out!

I've reached out to our team about this, and while the Dashcard will eventually update the last modified filters as checklists/comments are updated in the card, it currently won't do that in real-time. Other actions, such as adding or removing a card member, will trigger that real-time update (as you've noticed).

Our team will look into this further and will work on bringing real-time updates to Dashcards.

With that said, it may help to set up Custom Fields, which are updated via Butler automation when a comment is added to the card. For example, "when a comment is posted to a card, update the "Last Updated" field to {date}". The {date} variable is used in this example.

Please let us know if you have any other questions, and we'll be happy to help.

All the best,

Lara
The Trello Team

[Brontie Masero]

Thank you so much Lara! That makes sense! And thank you for the custom field workaround, I'll give that a try :)