Built-In Action Blocks
Here is a comprehensive list of all of our current, built-in actions for your integration recipe action blocks.
What are monday Action Blocks?
Whether you're just dipping your toes into the monday apps framework, or looking to build an integration recipe without building a custom action, our monday action blocks are right for you. These 24 action blocks allow you to build out your custom recipes with ease.
To utilize a monday action block, choose any of the listed actions in the left hand panel of your custom recipe:
Create an Item
This action will create a new item on your board.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item will be created |
| Item column values | itemColumnValues | The column values that will populate the new item |
Move item to group
This action will move an existing item of your selection to a different group on your board.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item will be created |
| Item | itemId | The item Id to be moved |
| Group | groupId | The group Id the item is moving to |
Change column value
This action will change the column value of a selected column to something of your choosing.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the column will be changed |
| Item | itemId | The item Id where the column value will be changed |
| Column | columnId | The column Id that will be changed |
| General column value | columnValue | The column value to change to |
Notify someone
This action will notify a selected person with a message.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id that holds the item to be notified about |
| User | userId | The user Id who will be sending the notification |
| Item | itemId | The item to be notified about |
| Message | message | The message that will be sent out in the body of the notification |
| Notification Receiver | receiver | The person who will be receiving the notification (can be a user, email column, etc.) |
Set status to something
This action will set the status of a selected item.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item’s status will be changed |
| Item | itemId | The item Id of the status you’re changing |
| Status column | columnId | The status column Id to be changed |
| Status column value | statusColumnValue | The value of the status label to change to |
Set date
This action will set the date of a selected item.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item’s date will be set |
| Item | itemId | The item Id of the date you’re setting |
| Date column | columnId | The date column Id that will be set |
| Date column value | columnValue | The date value that will be set |
| Duration | duration | **The duration of time selected** |
Assign person
This action will assign a person to the selected task.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item is being assigned |
| Item | itemId | The item Id that’s being assigned |
| People column | columnId | The people column Id the person will be assigned in |
| People column value | columnValue | The person value that will be assigned |
Create item in group
This action will create a new item in a selected group.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item is being created |
| Group | groupId | The group the item will be created in |
Set date to today
This action will set the date column of an item to the current date.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item’s date will be set to today |
| Item | itemId | The item Id where the date will be set to today |
| Date column | columnId | The date column Id where the date will be set to today |
Start time tracking
This action will start time tracking for a specific item.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item’s time tracking will start |
| Item | itemId | The item Id where the time tracking will start |
| Time tracking column | timeTrackingId | The time tracking column Id that will start |
Stop time tracking
This action will stop time tracking for a specific item.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item’s time tracking will stop |
| Item | itemId | The item Id where the time tracking will stop |
| Time tracking column | timeTrackingId | The time tracking column Id that will stop |
Push date
Push the date of an item by a specific amount of time.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item’s date will be pushed |
| Item | itemId | The item Id where the date will be pushed |
| Date column | dateColumnId | The date column where the date will be pushed |
| Duration | duration | **The duration of time to be pushed** |
Unassign all
This action will un-assign all users from the selected people column.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item will be unassigned |
| Item | itemId | The item Id that will be unassigned |
| People column | columnId | The people column that will be unassigned (emptied) |
Duplicate group
This action will duplicate the selected group.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the group will be duplicated |
| Group | groupId | The group Id that will be duplicated |
Assign creator
This action will assign a creator to the selected item.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where item will be assigned a creator |
| Item | itemId | The item Id that will be assigned |
| People column | columnId | The people column Id that will hold the assignee designation |
Duplicate item
This action will duplicate a preselected item.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where item will be duplicated |
| Item | itemId | The item Id that will be duplicated |
Assign team
This action will assign a team to a selected item column.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where item will be assigned a team |
| Item | itemId | The item Id that will be assigned a team |
| People column | columnId | The people column Id that will hold the assigned team |
| Team column value | columnValue | The value of the team that is being assigned |
Create an item with mapping
This action will create an item with column mapping for the recipe-user to select from.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where item will be created with mapping |
| Item | itemMapping | The item Id that will be created with the ability for column mapping |
Notify (without item)
This action will notify an individual without association to any single item.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id that the notification will be sent out about |
| User | userId | The user Id who will send the notification |
| Message | message | The notification message to be sent |
| Notification receiver | receiver | The user who will be receiving the notification |
Set number column
This action will set the selected number column to a certain value.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item’s number column will be set |
| Item | itemId | The item Id where the number will be set |
| Number column | columnId | The number column that will be set |
| Number | number | The number that will be set in the number column |
Create a subitem
This action will create a subitem in a certain item.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Item | itemId | The parent item Id of the subitem to be created |
| Subitem column values | itemColumnValues | The column values for the newly created subitem’s columns |
Create update
This action will create an update on a selected item.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the item’s update will be created |
| Item | itemId | The item Id where the update will be created |
| Message | updateBody | The body of the update that will be created |
| User | userId | The user who will be posting the update |
Send an email
This action will send an email to a selected email.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Board | boardId | The board Id where the email will be sent from |
| User | userId | The user Id who will be sending the email |
| The email body that will be specified in the recipe | ||
| Notification receiver | receiver | The user who will receive the email |
| Item | itemId | The item Id where the email body will be posted as an update |
Move item to board
This action will move an item to a specific board.
Input fields:
| Type | Id | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Item | itemId | The item Id that will be moved cross-board |
| Board | targetBoardId | The board Id where the item will be moved to |
| Item mapping | itemMapping | The item values that will be mapped after the item is moved |
Congratulations Builder!
You now know the ins and outs of how data is transferred to, and between, the blocks in your integration recipes.
As a next step, check out the following resources:
Updated 5 months ago