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Importing data to update existing Trello cards
Asked by Martyn Stacey:

I can see lots of information on importing to CREATE Trello cards, but I am wondering if it is possible to import data to UPDATE existing Trello cards, e.g. for adding "activities"?

Whilst Trello is used for monitoring, other established systems are used to log progress etc. I am trying to gather this information into one source (e.g. Excel) in order to run an import to UPDATE existing Trello cards by creating activity records for the relevant cards.

Can this be done? If so, how can I accomplish this?

Many thanks


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Martyn Stacey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4092423) if you had a spreadsheet where the link to the Trello card was in the first column, this Trellinator function would update the cards from the spreadsheet:

<https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/b09e1b3fc25b6bd6b005cffd49b5fc27>

You can read more about Trellinator here:

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

comments: author: Martyn Stacey
body: Hi Iain

Thanks for your reply - sounds like what I am looking for. In terms of "keys" and identifying Trello records you mentioned "link" to Trello card in order to update (or add Activity records). Is there such a thing as a "key" in Trello, if so how can I access this in order to directly find Trello records from Excel spreadsheet?

Apologies for simplistic questions - but all a little new to me in "new world" - give me a good interface mapping entity any day!! lol


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Martyn Stacey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4092423) yep every card has 2 ids, both of which can be used to look it up. The long ID or the short ID, the short ID is the one that appears in the link to the card so they're basically interchangeable.
Can't add due date
Asked by susanne oosterveen:

Hi!

I can't add any due dates to my cards today! I've never experienced this problem before. There's no mention of this issue on the status page, anyone know if this is a known issue? I just started working again after a two week holiday.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: susanne oosterveen
body: Aaaaaand it's gone.

Now it's working again, must have been a temporary glitch?
Style embedded Trello-Cards
Asked by Marc:

Hi Guys and Girls  

I've embedding Trello-Cards by reading from the board-json file. So far so good, the cards are loading (pretty slow...) but now i want to style the cards. Or at least give them margin/padding.

The id of a single card-div is embedded-card, so i do like this:  

#embedded-card {  
margin: 1rem !important;  
}

Doesn't matter if I try to style it with CSS directly or add inline styles with JS, there is no effect. I've also tried to set a timeout, so the styles getting added when the cards fully loaded.  
Here is my pen: <https://codepen.io/CradleToCradle/pen/abNQpbN>

<br />

Any suggestions for styling? And how to improve loading speed?


Answers:
author: Marc
body: Ok I can add margin on the iframe instead of the div.  

Question remains on how to speed up things :)

comments: author: milynnus
body: [@Marc](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4092355) Thank you for sharing your project.

Not trying to answer your query of speed, I tested out using report variables to construct the href and send it to an endpoint via a http request to construct the \<blockquote\>. Because you can use report variables in calendar commands you will be able to use it to provide regular updates to the website. Obviously, your approach of reading the entire json of the board avoided the need for this but I was looking at how I can avoid the hard coding of the list id in this JS and to let Trello automate this aspect of things.

Thanks again for sharing your project.


author: Marc
body: Now i've coded it that way, so it only displays the cards with a specific label. Reading the whole JSON is very convenient way to do it I think. Also, when just reading the JSON I don't have to mess with Node-JS whats not compatible with our website anyway.  

Regarding the speed; Its now live on our website and it loads much faster than on my codepen.


author: milynnus
body: [@Marc](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4092355) Congratulations. Would you be able to point me to the website.


author: Marc
body: I am but ashamed :D It's a freakin mess (not my mess im new). I will make ourself a new one soon.

<br />

Here you go: <https://fundsachenverkauf.ch>


Tags: css

javascript

json
Move due dates for items in checklist by a week
Asked by KC:

Hi everyone,

In Butler PowerUp, Is it possible to **move due dates for items in a checklist by a week**? I know that it is possible to move a card's due date by a week but I can't seem to find an equivalent action for items in the checklist. Note that the items in the checklist have different due dates so setting the same due dates for all items in the checklist is not ideal for my use case. If the above is not possible, is there any alternative power-ups/stuff I could use to move due dates by a week? Thanks!


Answers:
author: KC
body: Update: I found a similar post on this: [Link](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Changing-due-dates-in-checklists-on-repeating-cards/qaq-p/1415327)

However, it seems to set all the checklist item to the same due date

comments: author: Nancy Dennis
body: This would be so helpful. I have been looking to do this except move the due date 365 days ahead to avoid having to reset 1000's of checklist items for annual event project plans.
When creating a card via email-to-board, how can we see the person sending the email (From)?
Asked by J W:

When creating a card via email, how can we see the person sending the email (From)?

* The Subject of the email becomes the card's title.
* The Body of the email becomes the card's description.
* The From of the email becomes...???

We need to know who sent the email that created each card.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@J W](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4092181) you can't see this using the default Trello email to board feature, however there are some options that allow you to link an email address to a board (with the added bonus that you can not only see who sent the message but that you can also reply directly from the Trello card to the email):

1) My product BenkoDesk lets you use Trello as a shared/team Gmail client so you see both sides of the conversation in your shared gmail account:

<http://www.benkodesk.com/>

So you could create an email like "team@whatever.com" and when people send emails to that, they become cards, you can see who sent the emails and reply to them from Trello

2) SendBoard lets you forward emails into their system and creates a card for each conversation, allowing you to reply -- you can use this with any email service provider but you don't see the outbound/sent in your email system:

<https://sendboard.com/>

3) Hipporello is similar to SendBoard, but adds the ability to use online forms for people to submit requests in addition to emails:

<https://hipporello.com/>

comments: author: Rohland
body: Hey [@Iain Dooley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1416112) - thanks for the mention :)

Just a note that you can configure a static Bcc rule for all outbound emails sent from SendBoard via the SendBoard settings. This means all outbound emails make their way to your mailbox (if backing up outbound emails is important to you).
Creating Checklist Link with Trello Card In Least Possible Steps....
Asked by Santiago:

Hello my fellow Trelloids. I'm trying to hash out this issue I'm having with Butler. I've been using the same set of Butler commands for a while now, but I've noticed of late that a set of them haven't been operating as expected. So I've submitted a ticket with Trello to inquire. I haven't heard back so I'll post here and see if I get a quicker response. Here is my cut and paste:

:   I'm using a Butler rule that is supposed to create a link from a checklist item...Actually convert it from a checklist item to a link to another Trello card. Better illustrated through the following screenshots. <https://www.screencast.com/t/k7W8jjZKK>

    <https://www.screencast.com/t/7OhX8eIkYl>

    Is there a step I'm missing, or something that I'm doing wrong, or something that has changed with Trello that no longer converts the checklist item into a hyperlink?

    **UPDATE**

    I was able to add a step within the Butler Power Up (under the "Cascade" action); however, this seems redundant. I don't believe I ever needed this step before. Did something recently change with Butler? Is there a more efficient way I can go about linking the checklist item with the newly created Trello card? It goes without saying that creating these Butler commands with the least number of actions it ideal for a number of reasons. In order to more clearly illustrate my point, I created this ScreenFlow video:<https://vimeo.com/459980717>. Your insight and expertise would be greatly appreciated.


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Santiago](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2621410) i think the issue is that you have:

using pattern "{checklistitemname}"

because what that means is that you're converting it to a linked card but not using the card link in the checklist item.

The "using pattern" applies to the checklist item name, not the card that's being created, the created card will automatically inherit the name of the checklist item from which it's created.

comments: author: Santiago
body: Thank you Lain so much for brining this to my attention. The only reason I used the variable in the first place was because the action wasn't working in the first place without it. The command would create a Trello card, but wouldn't convert the checklist item into a hyperlink. This is why I decided to try the {checklistitemname} variable. I had no idea that this variable pertained to the Checklist item and not the Trello card. I had those two backwards. Hmmm...

So I decided to eliminate the variable, and the additional step of linking the two cards. In other words, I went ***back to the original command***. And it started working again! So weird. But this is a metaphor for my life. Seems like this happens on a regular occurrence with me.

Oh well. Not sure why it wasn't working working before, or why it started working now, but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Thanks again!


author: Zack Arnold
body: Answered my own question.


Tags: butler

checklist

link
Butler rule: If Due Date is expired > plan it in for next week?
Asked by Klaas Koopman:

Hi everyone!  

I'm in love with working with Trello and I am experimenting with it right now on a free account.

Let's say I have a card with a due date for today at 18:00. If I do not touch it, it turns red in 'my cards' as it's date is expired. How can I make use of the Butler and make it automatically go to next week thesame day and time? (all my cards have the same time).

And how do I activate this through my whole account?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Klaas Koopman](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4091960) something like

```
the moment a card not in list "Done" is due move the due date by 7 days
```

comments: author: Klaas Koopman
body: Thank you but I do not work with a 'Done' list?   

My work flow is like this:  
Let's say I have a job that I want to do next week on monday. I set the due date to that day and time. So when I go to Account \> Cards it shows and filter on Due Date, it shows me the tasks I need to do today. And now when I did not get round to doing one of these cards, I just set the date to next week same day/time.

Perhaps you know a better way for this?


Tags: butler

due-date
Performing an action on (only) the card linked from a checklist-item marked as complete.
Asked by rax adaam:

I want to implement a simple rule:

When a checklist-item is checked, move the linked card to the list "My List"

However, I can't find any action that allows one to act just on the checklist-item that triggers the rule.

I wanted to use the "find card" functionality; however, because the name of the checklist item is in linked form (i.e. \`\[{cardname}\]({cardlink})\` ), the variable {checklistitemname} returns the markdown for the above link, instead of just the card name, so I can't target that specific card.

As a result, I'm having to use the cascade action "for every completed item in the checklist."

It seems to me it should be possible to either copy the checklist-item-name that is displayed (Vs the markdown) or otherwise extract just the name or link of the card in order to only execute the following steps on that specific card.

If anyone has an idea of how to accomplish this, please let me know, I'd greatly appreciate your time and help!

All the best,

RA


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@rax adaam](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4076099) You might be able to work around it by adding the item to a temporary checklist first like this:

![2020-09-21 at 10.28 am.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/111074iE98A7143E43ED21F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-09-21 at 10.28 am.png")

comments: author: rax adaam
body: Thank you very much for taking the time to reply [@Iain Dooley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1416112) - this is effectively what I did, in the end. Have noticed there are a number of small lacunae in the way Butler has been implemented that really take away from its power: I'm losing a lot of time trying to figure out how to work around functionality that ought to be easy to implement, given what Butler already does (e.g. I don't understand why they give different automation possibilities for rules / calendar / due date: seem to me these are just different trigger types, but I see no reason they couldn't trigger the same actions: for some reason it is not possible to create a \*new\* checklist with a calendar trigger).

No doubt it has already come a long way, but as a new user, the choices don't make much sense.

As always, appreciate your time and assistance!

Best,

RA


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@rax adaam](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4076099) yes especially when you look at what Butler Bot was capable of before they turned it into a power up ;) It lost a lot of functionality, that's why I mostly automate with Trellinator now.


Tags: checklist

link
Simple changing the assigned colleges (if needed)
Asked by Attila V?raljai:

Hi,

Now I'm planning / building a fully automated system for producing my online or digital products or service for my clients.

There are different production phases such as design, content, structure building ... etc.

Is there any way to build a specal way in Trello where the new colleges (coming in the near future) will be assigned simply (with couple of clicks) to their new position's tasks? (by changing the old one - it's me - to the new college).

Thx for your suggestions


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Attila V?raljai](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4091933) removing one member and adding another member is simple and takes a couple of clicks, what else did you have in mind?

comments: author: Attila V?raljai
body: [@Iain Dooley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1416112)just imagine the next scenario:

you have running processes somewhere between the start end endpoint.

all the processes and steps assigned to me.

A new member coming

I want to give him/her all these processes belong to the same table \[let's say: Design tasks or content tasks\] (I thought 2 of the rules should accomplish this task:

one of them remove me from these crads

the other one assign the new member all of the same cards)

Supposed to be good idea for that?  
thx


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Attila V?raljai](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4091933) okay so you want to take all cards assigned to one member, and assign them to a different member? There's no way to do that with Butler, but you could run this snippet of Trellinator code:

<https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/359a4a94966064e0643bad3969d70439>

in BenkoBot here:

<https://app.benkobot.com/>

There's not currently any way to save the snippet but you could just keep that gist link handy and run that code whenever you want to swap members. Future releases of BenkoBot will obviously allow you to save and re-run code but it's early days :)


author: Attila V?raljai
body: Gr8! ok thx, it sounds good. Will try it.

Thx again for your time and "brain". :-)

Attila
Make a beautiful home page
Asked by Scott Roberts:

The default pages and elements (macros, etc.) are fairly plain and ugly. I'd like to compose a pages that more visually engaging. For example, I tried to do something simple - rows of custom panels within page layouts to display my company's departments. While the page is responsive and I can a mobile friendly / responsive presentations, I cannot justify the text to the Center of each box. I'd much rather use the Spaces Marco for the automation it offers but it's sooo ugly and I've not found any documentation resources to customize it visually. Does any have any advice? I love the product, just don't like the look.


Answers:
author: Walter Buggenhout
body: Hi [@Scott Roberts](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4849188) and welcome to the community!,

While Confluence does have a lot of visual and functional goodies under the hood, it is true that not everything is possible out of the box.

If you feel limited in terms of branding and styling flexibility, the Atlassian Marketplace offers apps with a focus on just this aspect: making a great product even greater. This may contain [formatting](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=formatting) macros or even complete [styling and theming](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=custom%20theme) capabilities.

Hope this helps!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can a user who has a disabled confluence account access a space that has 'Anonymous' turned on?
Asked by Theresa Reynolds:

On our site user accounts are set to inactive/disabled if user does not log in after 30 days. Are users who have their account disabled able to access a space that has the Anonymous permissions turned on?


Answers:
author: Srinatha T
body: [@Theresa Reynolds](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/101653) , Anonymous means anyone on the internet. You are letting confluence be accessed by any one on internet and no authentication at all. Without logging into confluence one can access the content if anonymous access is enabled.

What is an anonymous user? {#toc-hId--1179113515}
-------------------------------------------------

An anonymous user is anyone who isn't logged in to your Confluence site. This could be:

* anyone on the internet

* a member of your organization who is not a licensed user of your Confluence instance

* someone who is a licensed user of your Confluence instance, but they aren't logged in

To restrict them from a page, you can either [change its page restrictions](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/add-or-remove-page-restrictions/) or [hide it from the page tree](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/move-copy-and-hide-pages/).

Thanks,

Srinath T


author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@Theresa Reynolds](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/101653) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

The answer is yes. When you make your content available to anonymous users, this means **anyone on the internet**. The anonymous access feature can't accommodate sharing with some anonymous people and not others. It's all or nothing.

I hope above info helps. Have a good day.

Thanks,

Srinath T

comments: author: Theresa Reynolds
body: Srinath, I noticed this question fell under Cloud but it should be under Data Center. That is the context of my question.

As a follow on, what is the definition of 'anonymous' according to Confluence? I though it was people that DO NOT have an account. Or is it people who are not logged in (even if they have an account).

If someone has an account but it is in a disabled/inactive state how does that affect Confluence determination of whether they are an 'anonymous' user or not.

For example, if a user with an account belongs to a group that is NOT in the permissions scheme of a Confluence space which has anonymous turned on, they can not access that space. Anonymous space access permissions does not take precedency/override the user groups access permissions.

One more question, can pages on an anonymous space be restricted to prevent anonymous user access?


author: Srinatha T
body: [@Theresa Reynolds](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/101653) , You can go through this page actually which has all the info.

* [set-up-public-access](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/set-up-public-access/)

I hope above answers your questions. Have a good weekend.

Thanks,

Srinath T


Tags: account

anonymous

data-center
Why can't I set the font-size when exporting a space to pdf
Asked by Alex Morgan:

I'm trying to generate a document that I can issue externally using the export to pdf function.

Confluence is demoting my headings by 1 level, eg page title is h1, h1 is h2 etc, which is fair enough. I can tell it's doing this by adding styling in "PDF stylesheet" field under "Look and feel - pdf export" to change the color of say h1 to red, and then check what's red in the generated pdf.

My issue is that although the export is respecting me setting certain properties of h1, h2 etc, eg color, it's ignoring me setting the font-size.

I've tried defining the value in pt, px, and em without any luck.

Is this just native to my confluence or a general bug?


Answers:
author: Anna
body: I can't seem to figure this out either. I can change the font colour just fine, but there seems to be no way to change the font size.

Am I correct in thinking that this is a bug?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why do I still have the legacy editor instead of the new editor?
Asked by Howard, Janelle:

I've been looking through documentation and instructions on how to best customize templates for use within my space, and it seems the easiest option would be to use "create from template" option. I, however, don't have that option on my Confluence. I use the Cloud Confluence page. How can I get that update?


Answers:
author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@Howard, Janelle](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4848908) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

I am not a cloud user yet but as per the below web page, you will be notified via banner.

* [Convert pages to new editor.](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/convert-pages-to-the-new-editor/#Convertpagestotheneweditor-Neweditor)

Read through the above article and I hope it clears your doubts .

Have a good day.!

Thanks,

Srinath T


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

editor

legacy

upgrade
Confluence Cloud: How do I find newly created pages by their creation date
Asked by Renee.ten-Bruggencate:

We migrated data from Confluence into another repository last August. Now we would like to report on newly created pages since then, but can only search from a Modified date.

Is there a way to find all the newly created pages since last August?


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Renee.ten-Bruggencate](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4142436)

Take a look at this post: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Page-Created-Date/qaq-p/939616>

Regards

comments: author: Renee.ten-Bruggencate
body: Thank you Fabian. I am seeing dates from 2018. We are on Confluence Cloud, I should have mentioned that. Is there a solution for that version?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

date

issue-create