Automate duplicate checklist when creating it

[Rebeca Burguera]

Good morning, I want that when I create a checklist on a card it is copied with all its elements in a new checklist on the same card.

[Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting · Accepted solution]

You can do this but you will have to be sure to protect against a couple of things:

1. Loop conditions.  If you use automations to do this, you could get trapped in a loop of checklist creation, which Butler will just halt the automation if it detects it
2. If you trigger on checklist creation, you will just end up with a blank checklist

To solve the first, you make sure the duplicate checklist has a unique name.  

when checklist "regex:/^((?!Duplicate).)*$/i" is added to a card, add the "{checklistname}" checklist from card "{triggercardlink}" renamed to "Duplicate {checklistname}" to the card

Instead of Duplicate, the word can be any word of your choosing

To solve the second, you require an automation to duplicate checklist items when they are created:

when an item is added to checklist "{checklistname}", add item "{checklistitemname}" to checklist "Duplicate {checklistname}"

You can then go further and make sure that if items are removed from the first checklist, they also are removed from the duplicate:

when an item is removed from a checklist, remove item "{checklistitemname}" from checklist "Duplicate {checklistname}"

The same can happen when 1 is checked:

when an item is checked, check item "{checklistitemname}" in checklist "Duplicate {checklistname}"

 See it in action below:

[Rebeca Burguera]

Thank you very much!