# Import from Trello

> Connect Trello to By Dawn through By Dawn's Trello Power-Up, pick a board, and check how its lists, checklists and members map.

This page helps you bring a Trello board into By Dawn. At the end its cards are By Dawn tickets, and, if you chose to
keep syncing, the two stay in step until your end date. [Import and sync](https://docs.bydawn.com/import-and-sync/) explains the
steps every tracker shares, so this page covers only what's particular to Trello.

## Before you start

- You need to be a project admin in By Dawn, and an **org admin** has to allow By Dawn's Power-Up (see
  [Before you start](https://docs.bydawn.com/import-and-sync/#before-you-start)).
- By Dawn works in Trello as the member who allows it, so do that as someone on the board.

## Connect

1. Sign in to Trello as the member By Dawn should act as.

2. In By Dawn, open **Settings › Import & sync › New import**, pick **Trello** and choose **Connect**.

3. Trello asks whether to let By Dawn read and write your boards. Choose **Allow**.

4. Trello sends you back to By Dawn, and the page shows the connected Trello member.

By Dawn uses its own Trello Power-Up, so you don't create one, and it isn't added to any board. The access you give
doesn't expire on its own: it lasts until the sync ends, or until you revoke By Dawn under **Applications** in
your Trello account settings.

## Pick what to bring

Pick one **board**. Its open cards, their comments, checklists and attachments come over.

## How Trello maps

Trello has no statuses, only lists, so its **lists** are matched to columns by name, and you check each one.

- **Lists.** By Dawn suggests a column from words in the list's name: *Done*, *Complete* or *Shipped* suggest a
  completed column, *Review* or *QA* a review column, *Doing* or *In progress* a building column, *Backlog* or
  *Icebox* the backlog, and anything else a to-do column.
- **Finished cards.** Trello has no "done" flag on a card, so a card counts as finished when it's in a list you
  mapped to a completed column. You have to map at least one list to a completed column before you can import.
- **Archived cards** aren't imported.
- **Checklists** become a task list at the end of the ticket's description, under a heading with the checklist's
  name. Trello keeps owning that part: a sync rewrites it from Trello, and edits to it in By Dawn aren't sent back.
- **Members.** Trello never shows members' emails, so pair each person with a By Dawn member by hand. Anyone you don't
  pair stays on the ticket by name, unassigned. The first member on a card becomes its assignee.
- **Priorities.** Trello has no priority field, so tickets come in with no priority.
- **Labels** become labels.

## When you sync both ways

By Dawn writes back the title, description (without the checklist part), list, members, labels and due date, plus
new comments. New tickets you create in By Dawn are added to the list you mapped their column to.

By Dawn sets up a Trello webhook on each board when a sync starts, so an edit in Trello usually reaches By Dawn within a
minute. Its regular check every few minutes catches anything a webhook missed.

## Where to go next

- [Import and sync](https://docs.bydawn.com/import-and-sync/): conflicts, pausing and ending a sync.

Source: https://docs.bydawn.com/import-trello/