Mark your cards complete - due dates are no longer required in Trello! (Coming Soon)

[Kate Baucherel]

Getting used to marking dated items complete using the circle inside the card, but now there are completed lists where 'dated' cards have a green date and a green tick, and others neither as they were not date sensitive and this hurts my neurodivergent brain! It feels like adding an extra step where none was required. I'm sure you wouldn't have implemented it if it had not been requested by a majority, but this thread seems to show there are two types of Trello users and a large minority find it unhelpful. Checking off a date is important, but the board flow leans to completion being indicated by position. Will there ever be a way to simply check dates again rather than completion?

[Daydreamer Mike]

@Kate Baucherel the feature has always technically been there as part of the dir date. All they've done is detach it from the due date and beautify it. 

You can use automation to ensure that whether your check the box or drag the card to done, the outcome is always the same. Let me know if want a hand with that?!

[Kate Baucherel]

@Daydreamer Mike so does that mean I can automate cards such that any attached date turns green when I move to a Done list (I have one for every week of the year) but there is no visible tick?

[Rick Clark]

My automation that moves cards based on a complete due date doesn't work with the items marked complete without a due date and now I see there's no option for automation that will filter cards based on if they're complete. here's my legacy automation
"every wednesday at 2:00 pm, create a report in variable "Done" with all cards in list "To Do" with a complete due date using pattern "- {cardname} - {cardcheckliststate}", send an email notification to "****" with subject "{boardname} Report for {date}" and message "These are the items that were done at {boardname} recently:\n\n{$Done}", and move each card in list "To Do" with a complete due date to the top of list "Completed""

This is showing no option to filter based on complete status

[Radek Výtisk]

On similar topic as Rick above, for the scheduled automations, I only see option to archive each card marked as complete: 

It would be really great if we could also "move" each card marked as complete to wherever we wanted to. Can this be implemented?

[Rick Clark]

This really broke everything for me. I hope we can get back the feature we used to have to be able to move cards or add them to a report if they are marked complete

[Kelly Gabel]

@Rick Clark - can you say more about how this broke things for you? I haven't had an issue with any of my workflows since this change. New workflows have to be modified to the Mark Card Complete vs. Mark Due Date Complete, but nothing has broken that was already in place.

[Rick Clark]

Hi @Kelly Gabel 
Thanks for your curiousity, here's my legacy automation:
"every wednesday at 2:00 pm, create a report in variable "Done" with all cards in list "To Do" with a complete due date using pattern "- {cardname} - {cardcheckliststate}", send an email notification to "****" with subject "{boardname} Report for {date}" and message "These are the items that were done at {boardname} recently:\n\n{$Done}", and move each card in list "To Do" with a complete due date to the top of list "Completed""

I used to be able to create a report and move cards based on a complete due date. now the only option is to archive cards that are marked complete

[Kelly Gabel]

@Rick Clark Ah, I see. So it's inside the filters in your Create a Report action where the Complete Due Date no longer exists. That's interesting that this option would go away without a replacement option created. When the card is completed (and there was a due date on the card), the due date would still be completed...so, in theory, this should still function just fine.

@Alex any thoughts on this?

[Rick Clark]

@Kelly GabelIt does still work... sort of. I can't create a new automation of the same type which means I can't edit it very much. but really what's broken is that now people can mark it complete without there being a due date. it used to be that people would have to add a due date to mark it complete, but now that people can mark it complete without adding a due date, it gets missed by the automation. It seems like it would be easy enough to try to teach people that they must add a due date before marking it complete, but that seems to be a challenge for some people unfortunately.

[Kelly Gabel]

@Rick Clark ya, I hear you there, for sure. Is there any point in the process where you could automate the adding of the due date maybe? Something like, "when a card is marked complete (any conditions to that), set the due date to now"?

[Rick Clark]

@Kelly GabelMy concern with that is that I have a half dozen people on the boards (like strata council members) that refer to it every few months to get information about the site or progress, but don't really use trello day to day. That means extra automation will cost 35USD per month for the little bit that I use it. I'm not developing software with sprints and a collaborative team or anything. I'm just trying to manage maintenance and one maintence worker

[Kelly Gabel]

@Rick Clark Totally fair concern!

[Rick Clark]

@Kelly GabelI appreciate your help! Do you know how I could go about escalating this concern to Atlassian?

[Kelly Gabel]

@Rick Clark I already did by tagging Alex :)