Integrate with Trello

If you use Trello to track feature development, you’ll find it handy to integrate your Trello instance with Productboard. Your engineering team can continue managing their development pipeline in Trello while product managers enjoy the flexibility of Productboard for understanding user needs, prioritizing what to build next, and rallying everyone around the roadmap.

In this article:

• Summary of benefits
• Setting up the Trello integration
• Configuring the Trello integration
• Pushing features into Trello as cards
• Removing the Integration
• Limitations

Summary of benefits

• Push Productboard features or subfeatures into Trello (as cards) and monitor their Trello status from Productboard.
• Navigate from a Trello card back to its associated feature in Productboard via auto-generated links.
• Configure multiple Trello integrations to push different features to different Trello boards/instances, or the same feature to multiple Trello boards/instances.

Setting up the Trello integration

1. At the bottom of the Main menu, click Settings > Integrations.
2. Find and click Trello.
3. Click Add integration > Set up integration.
4. Authorize access to Trello and close the pop-up.
5. Choose the target Trello board and list where you want to create new Trello cards from Productboard.
6. Click Enable.

Configuring the Trello integration

1. Choose the Trello board and list where Productboard features will be pushed.
2. Customize the color of the status values in Productboard's Trello task column –each mapped to a column in Trello.

Pushing features into Trello as cards

Pushing an item from Productboard into Trello creates a new card in Trello. All items must be pushed individually, even if they have a relationship in Productboard. 

1. On any grid board, click Add columns > Integrations. (On any features board, it's Add columns > Tasks).
2. Find your Trello integration and toggle it on.
3. On the board, find the item you'd like to push to Trello and click Push in the Trello task column.

Note: Every card in Trello will have a link back to Productboard in the description, and you can also click on the Trello task column in Productboard to open up the associated card in Trello.

Removing the Integration

You can always deactivate the integration by returning to Workspace menu > Settings > Integrations > Trello. Alternatively, you can simply remove the Trello column from your board from the Add columns sidebar.

Limitations

• 2-way sync of fields like name & description is not yet supported.
• It is not possible to import Trello cards into Productboard or sync existing features to existing cards. If you previously used Trello to capture feature ideas, you can export them to CSV (if you're on a Trello Business account) and then import them to the Features board using the Paste List of Features tool.
• Entities like tags, comments, and attachments that have been applied to features in Productboard are not pushed to Trello.
• Should the Owner of your Integrations change, contact us to reset your Integration permissions on our end with the new owner.