Copying Trello cards from one board to another

Question

This is how I copy a card from one board to another:

1. Click the card

2. Click Copy

3. Select the right board from the (long!) list of boards

4. Select the list in destination board

5. Click copy

And this I have to repeat for every card - which is quite cumbersome and error-prone.

Is there a better way?

Maybe I could do this in bulk somehow? Or just drag-drop between boards?

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Background

In my company, we use Trello for project management of software development in sprints.

We have several boards with backlogs (for different projects) and then a board with a "current sprint", which are the tasks we work on currently.

Every week, when we pick cards from the backlog, I have to copy them over to the current sprint board. The process is slow, frustrating and error-prone.

Answer 1

It's a real bummer that Trello does not support bulk actions, I don't think it's an uncommon use case. My opinion aside, I can offer you two suggestions.

Copy and Paste Shortcut

Yep, it's as easy as that.

1. Hover your mouse over a card on Board A
2. Ctrl/Cmd + C
3. Hover your mouse over Add a card... on a list on Board B
4. Ctrl/Cmd + V

Here's how that works in action

Multi-select for Trello

If you are using Google Chrome, you can buy a license for Multiselect for Trello a Chrome extension that makes batch actions on Trello easy.

You would

1. Select a few cards you want to move from Board A
2. Click the Actions menu and Copy
3. Select your destination Board and list from the menu

Here's that in action

Answer 2

For anyone still a bit befuddled on this (like I was) the best way to do this is...

With the list you want, got to actions and choose "copy list"

You will now have two on the same board

Now with your copied list, go back to actions and choose "move list" This will give you the option to move it to a different board!

Job done :)