Cloning a Trello card
Asked by Emily Gibson:

I have a board that tracks nine activities. Each activity has an "In Progress" list and "Completed" list. Rather than allow members to move cards between activities, I would like to clone cards when they are moved to the "Completed" lists, and send the cloned cards to the relevant "In Progress" lists. This way, we will have a record of completed activities, I will have more control over how cards are moved between activities, simplify member roles (I'm working with a lot of older folk who find Trello a little overwhelming), and be able to work on more than one activity at once. Any help is appreciated!!


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Emily Gibson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2657762) hi there, as [@Denise](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/865531) mentioned this is something you could do with Butler, but you can't currently create a new Butler account. Are you already a user?

If not, you can use Trellinator for this. I don't quite understand the exact workflow you're after but the code to copy a card to In Progress when it's moved to Completed would be:

<https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/764b5b1a5a38f2c8a15c4c2069ace54c>

Setup instructions for Trellinator are here:

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

comments: author: Emily Gibson
body: Hi Iain,

I had a go at Trellinator. Successfully made it to the step where Trellinator responds to a comment on a card. Struggled thereafter. I noticed that you mentioned Upwork in a comment to your instructions. I may have to give them a try, or find someone else at my organization with more techy smarts. But thanks so much for giving me somewhere to start from!


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Emily Gibson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2657762) congrats on getting that far! If you just share that spreadsheet with trial@benkoboard.com I can install the code for you -- then all you have to do is republish the web app and add the trellinator user to any boards where you want this behaviour to occur.

You'd use a similar set up with a freelancer -- they would run through the Trellinator setup in their own account, then you'd test the behaviour in a demo board. If you shared your Trellinator sheet with them, they could then install the code and you could publish it.

There are other ways to work with a freelancer to write Trellinator code but that's the simplest.


author: Denise
body: Hi Emily,

That sounds like something the [Butler Power-Up](https://trello.com/power-ups/5935cab6b26816f9d49fd814/butler) should be able to help with. As we work on [completing the acquisition](https://app.butlerfortrello.com/master-25/acquisition-faq.html) we can't accept new user but will soo.

If you need to implement that sooner, you could also consider setting up an automation via a service like [Zapier](https://trello.com/power-ups/58d4259b89d6d7e47a899239/zapier).

comments: author: Emily Gibson
body: Hi Denise,

Thanks so much for your help. I finally had a chance to play around with Zapier today. It seems like it should do what I need, I'm just struggling to understand how it works. I'll keep slogging though, and see if I can't make some sense of it.