How to use IBM App Connect with Trello
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards that show who is working on tasks and what progress is being made. Use IBM® App Connect to connect Trello to other applications. For example, when a new campaign is created in your CRM system, IBM App Connect can create teams, boards, lists, and cards automatically in Trello to track related tasks.
App Connect Enterprise as a Service connector
Cloud-managed connector
Local
connector in containers (Continuous Delivery release) 11.0.0.12-r1 or
later-
Local connector in containers (Long Term Support release)
Connecting to Trello
To connect to Trello from the Catalog page in the App Connect Designer for the first time, expand Trello, then click Connect. For more information about ways to connect to Trello, see Managing accounts in App Connect.
To use the data in your Trello account to update your other applications, you need to give permission for IBM App Connect to access your Trello account. When you see the message from Trello, click Log in, then enter your Trello username and password. If you are already logged in to your Trello account, click Allow.
Before you use the account that is created in App Connect in a flow, rename the account to something meaningful that helps you to identify it. To rename the account on the Catalog page, select the account, open its options menu (⋮), then click Rename Account.
What to consider first
You can see a full list of the actions that are available with Trello on the Catalog page of the App Connect Designer. Before you add some of the Trello actions to your flow, make sure that you have the following resources.
- To add the Create board action to your flow, you must have a team in Trello for IBM App Connect to add your board to. You then specify the name of the team when you add the action to your flow.
- To add the Create list action to your flow, you must have a team in Trello with at least one board so that IBM App Connect can add the list to your board. You then specify the names of the team and board when you add the action to your flow.
- To add the Add card to list action to your flow, you must have a board in Trello with at least one list. IBM App Connect can then add the card to your list. You then specify the names of the board and list when you add the action to your flow.
Events and actions
Trello events
These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start performing the actions in the flow.
Trello actions
These are actions on this application that you want a flow to complete.
- Actions
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- Update action
- Retrieve actions
- Delete action
- Attachments
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- Add attachment to card
- Retrieve attachments
- Delete attachment
- Boards
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- Create board
- Retrieve boards
- Update board details
- Delete board
- Cards
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- Add card to list
- Retrieve card
- Update card details
- Delete card
- Checklist items
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- Add item to checklist
- Retrieve checklist items
- Delete item from checklist
- Update item from checklist
- Checklists
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- Add checklist to card
- Retrieve checklists
- Update checklist details
- Delete checklist
- Comments
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- Add comment
- Update comment
- Delete comment
- Labels
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- Add label to card
- Retrieve labels
- Update label
- Delete label
- Lists
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- Create list
- Retrieve lists
- Update list
- Members
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- Retrieve members
- Delete member from a card
- Add member to card
- Teams
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- Create team
- Retrieve teams
- Update team details
- Delete team
Examples
To find templates that include Trello in the Templates
gallery of the App Connect Designer, search for Trello.
For example, the following template connects Trello to Eventbrite.
Create a Trello card when a new event in Eventbrite is added.
Use this template to create a flow that adds a card to a board in Trello when a new event is added in Eventbrite. The flow adds a card that reminds you to check the attendance list two weeks before the start date of your event.