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 4 months ago