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Brittany Joiner
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Brittany Joiner is a Trello expert with over a decade of experience. An active member of the Atlassian Community, Brittany has answered user questions and helped countless people learn how to use Trello to streamline their workflow and boost their productivity. She's also a contributor to the Trello blog, writing about how to use Trello to increase personal and team productivity. After working in marketing for several years, Brittany became a developer. She regularly speaks about Trello, automation, and how to help individuals move into technical careers. Brittany lives with her partner and her dog and you'll find her nerding out about technology, traveling the world, and making Trello-related puns.
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Rules

Rules simply combine the triggers and actions we’ve already discussed. Chapter 6 showed the possible triggers that can be set for events. You’ll find all of these triggers in this section, and you can then string to any number of actions.

Remember the examples such as “When a card is added to the board, set the due date to seven days from now”? You’d set that type of automation up here because it’s watching for an activity that happens on the board (such as a new card being added).

Rules might be the most common type of automation—as you might expect, because I wrote an entire chapter about the triggers that live in the Rules section!

When to use rule automation

If you want automation to happen based on something else happening in a card or on the board, you’ll probably want to use rules. Go back to the “When this happens... then that...” statements about your workflow. If your “When”...

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Brittany Joiner is a Trello expert with over a decade of experience. An active member of the Atlassian Community, Brittany has answered user questions and helped countless people learn how to use Trello to streamline their workflow and boost their productivity. She's also a contributor to the Trello blog, writing about how to use Trello to increase personal and team productivity. After working in marketing for several years, Brittany became a developer. She regularly speaks about Trello, automation, and how to help individuals move into technical careers. Brittany lives with her partner and her dog and you'll find her nerding out about technology, traveling the world, and making Trello-related puns.
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