possible to sort results when creating a report with Butler?

[Daniel Morrow]

I'm developing a Butler report for our weekly check-in meeting, and I haven't found a way to sort the order that my cards are displayed.  I want to sort by the card's Due Date. Is this possible?

[milynnus]

@Daniel Morrow sounds like an interesting hack to work on with my Superhero Power

https://www.notion.so/Superhero-Power-ac42df32932f423fbbe2d60cf2d0dbab

[Daniel Morrow]

Thanks @milynnus  , I'll investigate this solution as well.

As a former coder turned podcast producer, this is giving me a chance to dust off those old skills.

Thanks guys!

[milynnus]

@Daniel Morrow completed code and test. Will update my Notion pages by EOD

Append the sort parameter to each line of report. For dates like due date you need to format it using cardduedate~YYYYMMDD. The program will strip the sort parameter and return {httpresponse.sorted_report} and you can mail it out.

every day at 10:40 pm, create a report in variable "report_to_sort" with all cards with a due date using pattern "{cardduedate~YYYYMMDD}^{cardname} was created on {cardcreationdate}", post to url "https://25368.wayscript.io/butler/?registry=<registry ID>&module=5f8e4ccf1787ba5a284d5f5a" with payload "{\"report_variable\" : \"{$report_to_sort}\", \"reverse\" : \"Yes\"}", and send an email notification to "sgi.collective.sg@gmail.com" with subject "Sorted Report" and message "From\n{$report_to_sort}\n\nTo\n{httpresponse.sorted_report}"

[Daniel Morrow]

Thanks @milynnus  ...gonna get back on this tomorrow.  Appreciate the help!

[Iain Dooley]

@Daniel Morrow you could have another Butler command that sorts lists by due date and execute that prior to the report being generated

[Daniel Morrow]

Thanks, @Iain Dooley . That would work but I'm grouping in the document on something other than what list they're in. And I don't want to modify the board at all when generating the report.

[Iain Dooley]

@Daniel Morrow hmmm might have to go with a custom API call then, for example this Trellinator code gives me date ordered list of cards in my "Coming up" list on my "iaindooley" board:

https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/dd42ccef801e4b14daf13e14005e62c3

You can execute Trellinator code via BenkoBot:

https://app.benkobot.com/

or you can set it up under Google Apps Script:

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

[Daniel Morrow]

Thanks @Iain Dooley   I'll take a look at that. Time to go next level with my Trello game :)