Automation - custom html email report fine tunning

[Dmitry Kasatkin]

Hello, there. Are there anyone who could help me to troubleshoot? My html custom report doesn't follow my custom pattern.

Before possting I've already read this guide 

My process:

I set up simple custom email report of card due less than 7 days. 

when I do it without html I'm getting correct result in terms of pattern (Time, DayofWeek, Labels, Cardname(link attached)

My current working version: 

Then I update msg report variable in order to get html form of report. 

To it {$nextweekdue} appending this {$nextweekdue_html}

and get this html result, which ignores my custom patter:

This is my rule: 

What am I missing or how I can fix it? I'd like your help, guys)  

[Mat · Accepted solution]

Hi Dmitry,

Unfortunately, the {$nextweekdue_html} HTML reports have their own standard pattern, and it overwrites any pattern you might set as a parameter to generate the report. So if you need any information that is not displayed in the HTML pattern, you must use the regular text reports {$nextweekdue} in order to be able to customize your own.

You can look at the format from the screenshot shown here:
https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/creating-reports-with-butler/#How-to-use-a-pattern-to-customize-your-report 

We will take note to update the documentation explaining the _html so it's not confusing.

Hope this helps!

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[Mauricio Arias Olave]

Greetings, @Mat .
I am interested in the documentation regarding the use of *_html for Trello automated reports.
Is there any update or additional information you can share?

For example, I would like to use the "report_html" in addition with the patters shown in the linked documentation.

I am aware of report_html and nextweekdue_html but, I don't know if there are other *_html available reports nor examples of their outcomes - trial and error (running the trigger/rule/automated task) it is kind of cumbersome.

Thank you.

[Mat]

Hi @Mauricio Arias Olave welcome to the Trello community!

What you're looking for is creating a customized visual report. Any variable that you create can be appended with _html. For more information please go to this documentation:
https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/creating-reports-with-butler/#Customized-visual-reports  

I hope this helps, but let us know if you have any questions!
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[Mauricio Arias Olave]

Thank you, @Mat .

I will try, but, your answer was way more clear - I thought that "fridayreport_html" was a predefined template with HTML on it, but, now that I read both (your reply and the documentation) - it looks like this feature for customized visual reports applies for any variable and Trello use the name of the variable (plus, the _html) generates the visual report.

I think the documentation can be a little more clear about this - for example, by adding a screenshot of the outcome from the shared code snippet.

Kudos, upvoted and thank you.