Publish Shopify Products When Trello Cards Move to Approved

This step watches your Trello board for any card movement and kicks off the workflow every time a card's list changes. You'll need to select your Trello board from the dropdown — this should be the board where your product review process lives. MESA polls the board every 15 minutes, so publishing happens within that window of a card being moved. Every card move on this board will start the workflow, but later steps handle filtering so only the right ones result in a publish.

This step pulls the complete Trello card record using the card ID captured by the trigger. No configuration is needed here; it automatically uses the board and card from the trigger. The card name is particularly important: your card names must follow the format "Product ID: [ID]" for the workflow to correctly identify which Shopify product to publish. This data is passed forward and used in both the filter and the Shopify steps.

This step fetches the full details of the list the card currently belongs to, using the list ID from the trigger data. No configuration is required — it runs automatically using the board and list values already captured. The list name it returns (e.g., "Approved") is what the next filter step evaluates. If your "Approved" list is named differently in Trello, you'll need to account for that in the following step.

This step compares the list name retrieved in Step 3 against the value "Approved" using an exact match. If the names match, execution continues; if they don't, the workflow stops. The comparison is case-sensitive and whitespace is automatically trimmed. If your Trello list is named anything other than exactly "Approved" — including "approved" or "Approved" — you'll need to update the b field in this step to match your list name exactly.

This step retrieves the product's current status from Shopify and checks whether it equals "draft". If the product is already "active" or "archived", the workflow stops here. The product is identified by parsing the Product ID out of the Trello card name from Step 2 — which is why the "Product ID: [ID]" naming format in Trello is required. No configuration is needed; this runs automatically based on data already in the workflow.

This step updates the Shopify product's status from "draft" to "active", making it visible to customers in your store. The Product ID is parsed directly from the Trello card name, so no manual input is needed. Once this step completes, the product is live. If you want to set the product to a different status (such as keeping it in draft but scheduling it), you can update the status field in this step.