🗓️ Never miss a due date in Trello

Hey everyone! Happy Thursday! Hope you’re having a lovely week, that your Trello cards are successfully moving to your “Done” list. Let’s get to the good stuff.

In This Edition

🌮 Making card buttons work across boards
🗞️ Why you’ll love Jiracon even if you don’t love Jira
🛟 Troubleshooting due date notification
💡Sort out your conference schedule in Trello

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🌮 Dear Taco

This is a section where readers can submit their Trello questions, and each week I’ll pick one and answer it! It’s like “Dear Abby” but make it trello. Have a question you want to submit? Share it here.

Dear Taco,

Our Workspace has five boards that are seen/used by the entire team and one that is only for certain people. They use a similar (but not identical) card template. When I was creating the new board yesterday and thought I was deleting the buttons from just one place but they disappeared from all the boards in the workspace. Is there a way to delete/deactivate buttons on some boards in the workspace and not others?

Thank you!
Ana

Hey Ana!

So I think you’re talking about Card Buttons in Automation? If that’s the case, I can totally help!

Head to your button automations by clicking the lightning icon at the top of your Trello board. Go to Buttons, then Card Buttons, and you’ll see something like this.

It’s those options on the right side that you’ll want to look at. My guess is that you probably want both of those unchecked, and at some point they got checked!

If that’s not what you’re talking about and you’re talking about card templates, I might need you to re-explain the question or give me a bit more detail. Feel free to click below and submit again if I didn’t answer this correctly!

Want to submit your question? Maybe it’ll be featured next week!

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🛟 How To and FAQs

• Starring boards

• How single board guests work

• What to do when you’re not getting due date notifications (give this one a good read if you find yourself missing due dates in Trello. I went through some extensive debugging and troubleshooting tips, and showed exactly how to build automation for due dates if you want something besides Trello’s native due date reminders).

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💡 Use Case Idea

Maybe I’m just in conference mode since I’ve been traveling a ton… or maybe I’m already counting down the days til Team 24. But I love to use Trello for keeping track of what I want to do at conferences and any specific sessions I need to keep track of.

I’ll be honest - sometimes I actually do use a calendar instead (like I am for CMX Summit next week). But whenever there’s a robust agenda with a lot of things I need to pick and choose between and I can’t decide what I want to do, Trello is the obvious choice because I can:

• use labels to sort by different tracks

• add notes about sessions within the cards

• share this with other people

• create checklists with action items that i want to take in each session (and use automation to turn those into cards in other boards)

Happy Conferencing, and while I’ve got you thinking about conferences, make sure to save the dates for Team 24. If any How I Trello readers attend, I’ll at least buy a drink, and if we’ve got enough interest, maybe I’ll even host a mini party.

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