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 action blocks allow you to build out your custom recipes with ease.

These actions are also available in the custom recipe builder.

To utilize a monday action block, choose any of the listed actions in the left hand panel of your custom recipe:

Create Item

This action will create a new item on your board.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
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	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where the item will be created
Item	itemId	The item Id to be moved	Yes
Group	groupId	The group Id the item is moving to

Notify

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.)

Change status

This action will change the status of a selected item.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where the item’s status will be changed
Item	itemId	The item Id of the status you’re changing	Yes
Status column	columnId	The status column Id to be changed
Status column value	statusColumnValue	The value of the status label to change to	Yes

Assign person

This action will assign a person to the selected task.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where the item is being assigned
Item	itemId	The item Id that’s being assigned	Yes
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	Configuration needed
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	Configuration needed
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	Yes
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	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where the item’s time tracking will start
Item	itemId	The item Id where the time tracking will start	Yes
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	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where the item’s time tracking will stop
Item	itemId	The item Id where the time tracking will stop	Yes
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	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where the item’s date will be pushed
Item	itemId	The item Id where the date will be pushed	Yes
Date column	dateColumnId	The date column where the date will be pushed
Duration	duration	The duration of time to be pushed

Clear assignees

This action will un-assign all users from the selected people column.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where the item will be unassigned
Item	itemId	The item Id that will be unassigned	Yes
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	Configuration needed
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	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where item will be assigned a creator
Item	itemId	The item Id that will be assigned	Yes
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	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where item will be duplicated
Item	itemId	The item Id that will be duplicated	Yes

Assign team

This action will assign a team to a selected item column.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where item will be assigned a team
Item	itemId	The item Id that will be assigned a team	Yes
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 in board

This action will create an item with column mapping for the recipe-user to select from.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where item will be created with mapping
Item	itemId	The item Id of the trigger output	Yes
Item	itemMapping	The item Id that will be created with the ability for column mapping	Yes

Notify (without item and user)

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 to

This action will set the selected number column to a certain value.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
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	Yes
Number column	columnId	The number column that will be set
Number	number	The number that will be set in the number column

Create sub item

This action will create a subitem in a certain item.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
Item	itemId	The parent item Id of the subitem to be created	Yes
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	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where the item’s update will be created
Item	itemId	The item Id where the update will be created	Yes
Message	updateBody	The body of the update that will be created
User	userId	The user who will be posting the update	Yes

Send an email

This action will send an email to a selected email.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
Board	boardId	The board Id where the email will be sent from
User	userId	The user Id who will be sending the email
Email	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	Yes

Move item to board

This action will move an item to a specific board.

Input fields:

Type	Id	Description	Configuration needed
Item	itemId	The item Id that will be moved cross-board	Yes
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	Yes

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: