Expose Powerup to Butler

Trello
1

Is there any way to expose functionality of a powerup to Butler? A casual glance on the Butler UI suggests that this is currently not possible, and I was also not able to find any documentation suggesting that it is.

2

This isn’t something that is currently possible. Can you share more on what you’d like to do? It sounds like a great idea and we’d love to hear more on what you had in mind.

3

I have developed this powerup, and I am getting requests to streamline the workflow by for example starting a timer when a card gets moved into a specific list.

Since this kind of automation is exactly what butler is about I was hoping that there was some way to allow powerups to expose actions for use in butler rules.

Since I do not know anything about the internals of butler, this is only wild speculation, but I guess there could for example be a ‘butler-actions’ capability that powerups could use to expose callable functions representing certain powerup interactions

TrelloPowerup.initialize({
  'butler-actions' : [{
    name : 'Start Timer',
    action : (t, opts) => { ... },
    ...
  }]
})

Of course being able to define triggers would also be nice, but I guess harder to do, since one would also need some way to call a trigger through the client library by issuing for example t.callTrigger('started') as well as a way to expose the trigger to butler.

TrelloPowerup.initialize({
  'butler-triggers' : [{
    name : 'started',
    ...
  }]
})

The actions and triggers defined by the powerup could be available in the butler ui like the builtin ones are right now.

Some way to share data between a trigger and action might also be useful if possible at all…

Can something like this be done?

4

For https://cardsync.xyz/ I made it possible to integrate Butler actions using webhooks. It’s a bit of a manual process, but works. See more here: Trello