Repeating or copying cards weekly for planning
Asked by Lukasz:

I'd like to use Trello to make a schedule to allocate colleagues sitting in our office on a rotating basis - something like a coworking space management.

I have set up lists corresponding to rooms, and have 2 labels - "regular weekly schedule" and "one-off occupancy".

I have populated the board with this week's schedule, and am visualising it in the timeline view:

![Screenshot 2021-07-05 132111.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/150047iBB224009D1407937/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2021-07-05 132111.png")

Now, I'd like an easy way so that cards can be copied into the next week - and then the next, and so on. Bonus points if it can be easily and quickly done for the "regular schedule" label only.

This needs to be done a few weeks in advance, and my tries with the card repeater powerup make me understand that it only creates a new card right at the moment when its time comes - but I want to have a view a couple of weeks ahead.

Thank you for all the help!


Answers:
author: Lukasz
body: So I found a way to copy a card into the same list, and so the solution I went with is quite a bit less complicated than the above. I created a button with the command:

```
copy the card to the top of list "{triggercardlistname}", move the due date to the same day next week, and move the start date to the same day next week
```

This makes a copy of the booking for the next week. Still requires some manual clicking, but for now it should do.

comments: author: milynnus
body: [@Lukasz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4268233)

Glad that this will work for you. Mine is an 'extension of sorts' to the Card Repeater Power Up to be able to see a number of weeks ahead. ??


author: milynnus
body: [@Lukasz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4268233)

Are you any closer to a solution? This requirement has been asked before but I have not seen a recommended solution. The requirement as I understand it is to layout repeated cards ahead of time so that they can be observed in a calendar view and to perpetuate and add each new cards as time passes. Am I correct?

comments: author: milynnus
body: [@Lukasz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4268233)

This is still work in progress.

<https://www.loom.com/share/eea1737fdc8f470aa63901be2082120e>


author: Lukasz
body: Hi Milynnus, thanks for your help!

So what I'm doing for now is I've created a card button with command

```
move the due date to the same day next week, and move the start date to the same day next week?
```

The simplest way for us to use it is that I click a card I want to copy over into the next week, on the back of the card I click "copy" and make sure it is copied in the same list, and then click my custom button. I end up with the copy remaining in place for the current week, and the original moved to the next week.

It would be great if I could have the copy action under the same button, but I cannot see a way to copy a card within the same list - the butler only allows me to copy a card into a specific list, but not into the same list.


author: Lukasz
body: Oh, and yes - your understanding of the problem is 100% correct.


author: milynnus
body: [@Lukasz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4268233)

So the solution I have involves gathering all the weekly booking cards in a checklist you need to extend out for x weeks ahead.

Update that card's checklist the last set of {cardidlong}.

Use this card to extend the booking a week at a time until you stop it by moving it out of the "Run" list.

Added some logic if the booking is for Biweekly bookings.

So far so good.

Update : a weekly program runs to extend the list. Uses the same code.


author: milynnus
body: Wrong Post ...sorry