Importing your boards and users with the Trello integration

With the Trello for Forecast integration, you can power up your project management with Forecast’s reporting, financials, and resource planning, by importing all the existing Trello boards (together with users, comments, deadlines, and labels) into Forecast, in just one click. 

Once imported into Forecast, all Trello boards are shown in the planning stage for the project owners to plan and manage them, allocate people, and start reporting on them.

This article includes:

• Migrating boards and users from Trello to Forecast
• Data mapping

Migrating boards and users from Trello to Forecast

The migration of data from Trello is twofold. First, any boards that exist in the synced Trello account will come over to Forecast as standalone projects. Secondly, any team members that have been invited to the Trello account will be brought over as virtual users in the Forecast environment. 

To migrate both boards and users from Trello

1. Click Admin in the top bar. 
2. Select Integrations from the dropdown.
3. Find the Trello option and click on it.
4. From the Trello page click on Migrate.
5. Login and authorize the connection.

Migration of Trello boards and users will begin and should appear in Forecast within a few minutes.

Activate Users Imported from Trello

As mentioned above, any team member that has a profile in the Trello environment that gets migrated to Forecast will appear as a virtual user in Forecast. If an admin wishes to then invite these profiles to Forecast they will have to follow the steps below.

To invite the virtual users to Forecast

1. Click Admin in the to bar. 
2. Select Resources from the dropdown.
3. Click People.
4. Find the virtual users that were migrated from Trello.
5. Click on their profile by clicking on their name.
6. Enter their email address in Team member's email
7. Click Invite Team Member

Data mapping

The integration imports data by mapping it to the corresponding Forecast entities as indicated in the map below:

As mentioned earlier in this article, the integration only sends data one way and one time, from Trello to Forecast. Any changes made in Forecast are not reflected in Trello and vice versa.