Best way to get all the sub-items from a parent item

monday Apps & Developers
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Hey all,

I’m new to GraphQL and the Monday API. I’m trying something out for the Hackathon and wonder what the best way is to get all the sub-items from an item? I’m need a ton of times so performances does matter. I saw you need to get the item ID of the parent item to get the sub items via monday.api.

Anyone wants to point me to the right direction? Thanks!

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Hey @Arno,

there is a chapter about your issue in the documentation:

https://monday.com/developers/v2

You can find it under the buzz word “subitem”.
Hope that helps.

Greetings

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If you still struggle you can try this query:

{
   boards(ids: "YOUR_BOARD_ID") {

     items(ids: "YOUR_ITEM_ID") {

       column_values(ids: "subitems") {

          value

      }
    }
  }
}
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@TMNXT-Dev

Thanks for being on top of this and I’m glad we also have a code example to pass around. I really appreciate this :slight_smile:

-Alex

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Please note this solution is not reliable! I have used it and it will not return all subitem ids for some parent items!!

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Hey @amitozalvo ,

that’s interesting. Could you name those parent items. I’m really curious.

Greetings

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What do you mean by naming them? It’s happening to about 10% of parent items in my board and already reported to Monday which have told me this issue is because subitems API are not ready for production.
This is not a reliable solution as you might miss some subitems when querying them.

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I’m trying to reproduce that issue. But I always get all subitems.

How much subitems do you have per Item, because there is a default limit of 25.

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