How to get the board operator to work?
Asked by James Peart:

I'm trying to integrate Trello with Product Plan and want to use the board operator to pull through all cards from a particular board. I've not been able to get "board:id" to work (or "board:name").

I tried doing the search across all cards on Trello and couldn't get the board operator to work there either. Anyone got "board:id" search working?

I always get this response "We couldn't find any cards or boards that matched your search." for all my boards

Relevant help page

<https://help.trello.com/article/808-searching-for-cards-all-boards>


Answers:
author: milynnus
body: [@James Peart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1430339)

Thanks for sharing. Now I understand a bit more about your question. I don't think my comments "2 eays" are of any relevance to your question.

Tested this

**board:id** - Returns cards within a specific board. If you start typing board:, Trello will suggest boards for you. You can search by board name, too, such as "board:trello" to search only cards on boards with trello in the board name.

Seems to be able to qualify the search by its name.


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@James Peart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1430339) try putting the board name in double quotes like this:

board:"My Board Name"

comments: author: James Peart
body: Thanks Iain. No luck unfortunately. Still not finding the boards.


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@James Peart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1430339) are you only unable to use this from the Product Plan product or is the search also not showing any results when you run directly in Trello?


author: James Peart
body: I can't get it working in either strangely.

I've tried:

* board:Name
* board:"Name"
* board:id
* etc

Other operators (e.g. list:list-name) do work

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author: milynnus
body: [@James Peart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1430339)

It works for me board:\<space\>\<some text\>


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@James Peart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1430339) are you a member of the board CS Skills or are you only a member of the workspace to which the board belongs?


author: James Peart
body: [@Iain Dooley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1416112) I created the board and workspace so I should (as far as I can tell) be a member of both the board and workspace.


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@James Peart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1430339) and the search works in general? So if you search for a word without the board modifier it works fine?


author: James Peart
body: Yep just the board modifier ... but that's a key one for using the Product Plan integration effectively.


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@James Peart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1430339) have you tried with a different board name? How about a partial name match such as:

board:cs

maybe you have 2 spaces in the name or something and you can't see it in the way the board title is displayed.


author: James Peart
body: Same issue with other board names - it's either no results or a mixture (i.e. not filtered to just that board)

board: cs comes with lots of partial matches but not by board name e.g. a card with CS on a board with a completely different name

No hidden double space or hidden characters in the board name. Tried changing the name to just "Skills" and no change


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@James Peart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1430339) did you have the space before cs when you searched or was that a typo here?

Because it should be board:cs

Do other search modifiers work?


author: James Peart
body: Tried with and without the space - same result.

Other search modifiers all seem to work ... it's just board


author: milynnus
body: [@James Peart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1430339)

What is "Product Plan"? A board, power up or a third party program? Both the board id and name are available as Butler variables. There 2 ways that you can gather cards (1) collect card action (2) create a report variable. Butler has http request that you can sent the {board_id} to an endpoint that can do the heavy lifting for you.

comments: author: James Peart
body: Hi Milynnus,

Product Plan is a roadmapping tool so a third party.

<https://www.productplan.com/>

The standard Trello integration uses the operators (board:id).

<https://support.productplan.com/en/articles/2978925-trello-integration>

I'm not sure what you mean by the 2nd route (report variable). Can you explain it / point me to a guide?

Thanks!


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