For some reason, you can change the status of an item to “Done” and you can have an Automation send to Slack saying “{Item’s name} has been marked as Done” but there is no option for {subitem’s name}.
For Example:
Item: Finish marketing plan
Subitem: Film Ad
It will let me notify the team in slack when "Film Ad’ is “Done”, but when I mark “Film Ad as Done” the notification will only let me say “Finish marketing plan was moved to Done by xyz”.
I’ve even tried creating a custom automation, and it will allow you to notify internally on Monday with {subitem’s name}, but there is not option for this on Slack. This would be incredibly helpful as I use Monday to keep my team/clients accountable, but if I can’t have an automation go into a designated Slack Channel, then there really is no point since the “Item” is used as a meeting agenda, then we delegate out tasks using “subitems”.
This is a great suggestion @noahf! I reached out for an update from our developers and they did mention that whilst they don’t have a specific deadline for this release, the aim is have subitems supported by the end of the year. I recognise this isn’t the most ideal timeline for you, but I do want to be transparent about its release. Thanks in advance for your understanding
Also, kindly looking forward to the feedback/confirmation because the existence of that option is very integral to an upcoming project early next month at my organization.
I have had confirmation from the relevant team that we do not plan on rolling this particular feature out at this current moment. I apologise for the inconvenience here as I recognise that this is an update you’ve been patiently waiting for. Please know that I am advocating this features development and funnelling all your feedback directly to the team. Please continue to share this feature request around to increase the votes
Our notifications allow you to perform edits on the related item or subitem.
You can perform the following edits:
Assign an item
Add an update to an item
Change an item’s status
Move an item to another group, and more!
We’re also in the process of publishing some custom automation triggers and actions which will allow you to fine grain your notification scheme as needed. Give it a try and we’d love to hear your thoughts about the app.
Also voicing in our workflows as a creative agency, the Item is the umbrella deliverable (e.g. Create Workshop, Edit Video), and the subitems is where we assign each person to each component of the task (e.g. Create WIP designs of workshop, write copy of workshop).
We would like: when subitem is created, the user is notified in Slack.
Are we using the product inefficiently for this use case? In this instance is it better to have one item per person (not subitems).
I’ve attached a screenshot as an example of Group, Item, Subitem hierarchy.
Thanks!
Hopefully there’s some info soon!
