The moment it happens

Post new Trello cards to Slack

As soon as a card is added to your list, your team sees its name and link in Slack.

Runs: The moment it happens
Apps: Trello
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: post to #requests in Slack whenever a new card is added to the Requests list on my Team board in Trello, with the card name and link.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

On a shared Trello board, new work shows up silently. A salesperson adds a card for a new prospect, a support agent files a bug, a client request is dropped into the Inbox list, and everyone else only discovers it when they next open the board. The person who should have started immediately learns about it hours later, and urgent items wait with the routine ones.

The moment Trello reports that a card was created, this posts a message to Slack with the card's name and a link to it. It reacts to the event itself, so there is no waiting for a periodic check. You can limit it to a specific list, such as Incoming requests, so the channel only sees what matters.

It is useful for intake boards where someone is expected to pick up each new card.

What you get out of it

Someone picks it up right away
New requests appear in Slack the second they exist. The person on triage duty can claim the card in minutes, which is the difference between a same-day response and an overnight delay for a customer.
Nothing sits unnoticed in a list
Cards added to a rarely opened list used to wait until someone scrolled past. With a notification at creation, no request gets lost in a corner of the board nobody is watching.
Fits intake and triage queues
Support, sales and creative request boards depend on speed. A live announcement of each new card turns Trello into a queue the team can see, without paying for a separate ticketing tool.
Less need to watch the board
Team members stop refreshing Trello to check for new work. Their attention stays on what they are doing, and they respond when a message tells them something truly arrived. They get more done and still catch every arrival.
Easy to see the volume of requests
Scrolling through the Slack channel shows how many cards came in on a given day. That visible pattern supports staffing conversations with real evidence about workload. That evidence helps when asking for another pair of hands.

How it works

What happens, step by step

When a card is added to your Trello board, ClickRuntime is notified straight away.
It checks the card was created in the list you chose, such as Requests, and ignores everything else.
A message goes to your Slack channel with the card name and a link to it.

Before it runs live

Connect Trello
Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

RunsThe moment it happens

Post new Trello cards to Slackjust nowSucceeded

Slack · #requestsNew request: Update pricing page for Northwind deal trello.com/c/Xy7Pq2

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Trello steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

new_card_notifications.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_event, notify

REQUESTS_LIST_ID = "REQUESTS_LIST_ID"

@on_event
def handle(event):
    action = (event.json or {}).get("action", {})
    data = action.get("data", {})
    if action.get("type") != "createCard" or data.get("list", {}).get("id") != REQUESTS_LIST_ID:
        return {"posted": False}
    card = data["card"]
    notify.slack(f"New request: {card['name']}\nhttps://trello.com/c/{card['shortLink']}", channel="#requests")
    return {"posted": True}

FAQ

Common questions

Can it announce cards from only one list?

Yes. You can restrict it to a particular list, for example Bugs, so cards created elsewhere do not trigger a message. You can also announce several lists in separate channels if different teams own them.

Does it fire when a card is moved or copied?

It reacts to the creation event. A card that is moved between lists does not count as new, but a card created by copying another one does, because Trello records it as a card being created.

What information appears in the Slack message?

The message includes the card name and a link to open it in Trello. You can ask for extra details such as the list, the member who created it or the description, as long as Trello includes them in the event.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run for each event the app sends.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

The moment it happens