As it stands, it is not possible to move files either between columns or between items. To do that, we will first have to download the file, delete it in the existing column or item and then reupload it. It is evident that, this can quickly become time consuming and not very efficient.
This effect can also be seen in the API, where if there is a need to move files between items, one has to download the file and then reupload the file as an asset. I don’t think this is a good way to go for security reasons and also the effect this has on the amount of complexity used, since querying assets and uploading them is a very expensive process.
Would it possible to change the implementation for files so that they can be moved between items and columns?
Love this idea. Not only would it be a convenience to be able to move files between columns, it would also prevent the file history to be lost when moved which is important for the integrity of record keeping.
We really need this feature at my company.
Would love to see built!
I also need this feature.
I have one panel where my employees record the daily tasks, photos included.
There’s an scheduled routine (every night at 23:00) which transfers that daily job into a cloned structure panel that contains all the daily tasks, with the aim that my customers can check all daily jobs whenever they need.
I was able to transfer all the info and files until last month, now I can only transfer the data , the files are not transferred, it makes me do double and manual job. is there any solution in the short term?
I wish to request files from customers and have the ability for them to add directly to their item. I currently have a generic form on the board that can capture the files by category and this then creates a new item. The only way is to then download the item and re-upload to the new item. Transfering between items would be great but even better woudl be to be able to send the form request from the item by addign an item ID to the URL and as such, have the files supplied by my client go directly on to their item.
@monday, please add this functionality.
It’s the most natural way to use the interface.
Could we at least somehow, update the file metadata so it can be moved?
Thanks
Move files and Monday docs.
We really need this! i wish we can have it ASAP
Great idea, I too need this for our company. It will really help save time and accuracy
HI All, we really need a way to move items between file columns in monday.com
for details please see here: Move files between columns
similar requests here: Ability to move files
Thank you
Thank you for the request @YossiT !
Everyone: Remember you can vote for this request at the top of the screen!
Cheers,
Matias
Thank you Matias, this is a blocker for one of our new apps to the marketplace.
Really cool to see all the engagement on this feature request.
This is more of a limitation of our monday platform than the API – in our platform files are connected strictly to a column & item, and cannot be moved around.
I am going to keep this request in the API section until after I address it with my colleagues, but just wanted to make that slight clarification.
I am so sad to hear this.
This resolves a real life business problem for me personally 
@YossiT – I wasn’t saying we’ll never do it, just that we have to make a case to our wider product folks 
@dipro thank you for clearing this up.
I can go on a short zoom calll with you to show you how it solves a real life problem to many clients , would you like that?
More info on this thread would be great!
Sure thing.
Imagine a sales person (me among other things 
) getting a call from the purchasing manager of a big bank, asking why this year’s quote is 15% higher than last year’s ?
i ask him to hold and go consult my monday board’s files column named quotes.
there, there are 8 files, and i need to consult the last one i added.
the preview is loading slowly, and then i need to scroll one by one looking for the correct one. this is a painfully slow and annoying process.
to solve this, we created an app that moves all old files in a file column to another file column for example: ‘Last Quote’ & ‘Older Quotes’
and once new file/s are added to the last Quote file column, we transfer all the older ones there to the ‘older quotes’ file column. thus always have the latest ready to view in ‘Last quote’
since we do not have a way via your API to do this safely. we download the files. upload them again and then delete them from the other column. now this was reveled as risky since it required several API calls, syncing the replays and deleting important files . not sure if they were uploaded to the new column.
we need you to give us a simple API call to move files between file columns safely
I hope this helps
Yossi
Thank you for elaborating on this @YossiT !!
it would be great