Archive Repository Board Workflow

Last Updated:

July 2019

Setup Information

To make this workflow work, you need to use the Butler Power-Up for Trello.

For setting up the Archive Repository Board Workflow, you need at least a Trello Gold account. (Sorry, but the Butler Power-Up is too limited for free accounts; it’s not a good use for this workflow setup.

Weekly vs. Monthly Setup

How It Works

Completed tasks from a board are moved into the Archive Repository Board, and there either into a weekly or a monthly list.

The lists are create anew – every week or every month. Here’s how the list setup might look like:

Ideas for Expanding this Workflow

The commands contained in this set of workflows are basic commands. There are many ways how to extend the setup.

For instance, instead of a strict weekly or monthly list setup for the Archive Repository Board, you could combine the two. You could have the completed cards archived into a weekly list. But at the same time you could have a monthly list in place in which the cards from the weekly list are transferred into at the end of the week. This way, your board would look less cluttered in the long-term, but you would still be able to enjoy the benefits of seeing, what was accomplished this week.

Another variant of this workflow, is adding tracking comments: who archived the card and when, can be a precious information if you are working in a team and you would like to keep some degree of control.

You could also add the name of the board of origin to the archived card. If you have many boards that are archived away, this could make it much easier to identify where a card came from, originally.

These are ideas for you. They are currently not a part of this Archive Repository Board Workflow.

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Good Reads:

Creating an Archive Repository Board in Trello with the Butler Power-Up

How to Use Butler for Trello to Increase your Productivity

The 10 Commandments of Workflow Creation

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