Is it possible to set a due date reminder for more than 2 days before?
Asked by Ellie Scott:

I would like to be reminded of a card more than 2 days before its due date (e.g. a week before). Is that possible? The options under "set due date reminder" seem to have 2 days as the longest possible period of time.


Answers:
author: Alicia Fil?u Birlanga
body: Hi [@Ellie Scott](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4682342) , I think it is not possible only with the due reminders. I don't know if this is a good idea for you but I am going to tell you what I do. I have a To do this week list, and other To don't do this week list. I make a rule with the following action: when there are less than 5 days before due date, move to To don't do this week.

I don't know if I have explained well ?

Regards

Alicia


author: Hannah Humbert - Simpla Workflows
body: Hi [@Ellie Scott](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4682342) ! Welcome to the community :) another option that might work for you is using a [butler due date command](https://help.trello.com/article/1318-creating-and-managing-butler-commands#:~:text=Due%20Date%20commands&text=To%20create%20the%20command%2C%20you%20need%20to%20select%20a%20due,open%20the%20Due%20Date%20tab.&text=the%20Butler%20directory-,Select%20the%20Automation%20button%20at%20the%20top%20of%20your,or%20from%20the%20board%20menu.). The idea would be to set up an automation to email or slack you 7 days before a card is due. In the message contents, you can customise it based on what you need. You can also pull card details into the message using [variables](https://help.trello.com/article/1157-variables). Let me know if you need any help with that!

comments: author: Alicia Fil?u Birlanga
body: Oh that is interesting! It is other option. I will try it.

Thank you!


author: Ellie Scott
body: Thank you for responding! I tried putting in a command like that and I think I did it right, but I set up a "test" card and set the due date to a week from now (which is when I should get a reminder according to my command) and didn't get an email.

The command I set up is: 7 days before a card is due, send an email notification to (My email) with subject "Reminder" and message "{cardname} is due at {cardduedateweekdayname} {cardduedate}"

Does that seem right? Do you have any idea why it wouldn't be working?


author: Hannah Humbert - Simpla Workflows
body: Hey Ellie! Did you make it exactly 7 days from now down to the date time as well? I'm assuming if you set the due date to say Dec 28th 5 pm, and today is Dec 21st, the automation will then trigger at 5 pm. If it's still not working, it could be that your Butler timezone doesn't match the timezone you're in. More details on that [here.](https://help.trello.com/article/1169-butler-time-zone)  
Failing that, you could set your trigger to say "*7 days before a card is due at 9 am* " That way, if it's Dec 21st at 9 am, any card due on the 28th will trigger a notification, regardless of the date time.  
![due date trigger.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/174982i877968BE84E61266/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "due date trigger.PNG")  

You can test it out by setting the time in the trigger to a couple mins from now to make sure it works (it worked for me ?)


author: Ellie Scott
body: That worked! Thank you!!


author: Hannah Humbert - Simpla Workflows
body: Woohoo! Glad that's working for you ?


author: milynnus
body: [@Ellie Scott](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4682342)

Yes you can. You will need to use Trello api with some code.

comments: author: Ellie Scott
body: How would I set that up? As someone with no experience using api and who knows nothing about coding


author: milynnus
body: [@Ellie Scott](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4682342)

Yes you will need to code. Here I have an add on to Butler to set reminders and I used it to reminder me of due dates for subscription but a card button calling an endpoint via http request.

<https://trello.com/c/jk6kXdC6>