How can I auto-add due dates to advanced checklists?

[Tim Shanaher]

I read in the Advanced Checklists article that it is possible to use Butler to "Automatically set a due date to an item" but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this. 

What I'm trying to do is have a trigger so that when a card is moved into a specific list (e.g. "Order Ready") I want to add a checklist to a card and then automatically add a due date to each item on said checklist.

I've tried setting this up in butler with 2 commands. One adds the checklist when the card is moved into the list and the second is supposed to trigger when the checklist is added to the card "when checklist "Brief" is added to a card, assign the item to member @User, and set the item due in 8 hours" This second command fails to trigger though.

Is the issue that the wording of the command states 'item' when there are multiple items in the checklist and if so, do I then need to create a separate command for each item in each checklist? If this is the case, how would I go about setting up these commands? From what I can see, I can only set the trigger for when an item is 'added to a checklist' as opposed to an item in an existing checklist.

Appreciate any help/advice.

Thanks

[XLR8 Work · Accepted solution]

Hi @Tim Shanaher 

My guess (and it is a guess) is that you have to use the "add item" action before the "assign the item" action will work. I have not tested it but I could not find anywhere to explicitly define which particular checklist item you are wanting to interact with, so my suspicion is that these two actions work together. 

 

[Tim Shanaher]

Thanks for the suggestion. The commands are a bit long and clunky, but it gets the job done exactly how I was wanting.

[milynnus]

@Tim Shanaher 

If you are wanting to add member or assign due dates to checklist items you would for to use

for each item in checklist "Brief" 

under Cascade.