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”...
