Bulk update of Items through API?

monday Apps & Developers Feature Requests - API and Apps Framework
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Is there any way to “bulk update” items through the api with a single call rather than update one item at a time? It seems like the api is built (as well as all the documentation samples) to only do one mutation on one thing at a time. Say for example, I want to update all items in one group with the same column value. I’m assuming that Monday.com actually uses its own API? How does it do this?

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Hey @dipro (api whiz!), any thoughts on this one? Can you share any examples?

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Hey @deceiver08! At the moment there isn’t a way to bulk update items via the API.

Good catch – we do have this capability in our platform but this feature isn’t exposed through the API just yet. I’ll pass it along as feedback!

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Hey @dipro I’m also very interested to do a bulk mutation. Any thoughts when this will be exposed through the v2 GraphQL API? Seems like a common use case. Does the v1 legacy API support this?

Thanks!

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No update yet. Our platform supports this action through batch actions, but our APIs don’t at the moment. I’ve added your vote to this feature as well!

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please add my vote as well

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I just managed to do bulk update by mutating the query before sending it

  static async bulkCreateSubItems(token, itemId, values) {
    try {
      const mondayClient = initMondayClient({ token });

      const queryStrings = values
        .map(
          (value, index) =>
            `si${index}: create_subitem(parent_item_id: $itemId, item_name: "${value}") { id }`
        )
        .join(" ");

      const query = `mutation bulk_create_sub_items($itemId: Int!) { ${queryStrings} }`;

      const variables = { itemId };

      const response = await mondayClient.api(query, { variables });
      return response;
    } catch (err) {
      console.log(err);
    }
  }
}
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Improve mutation performance
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Upvote. Needed! I have a project with more than a 100 work items on DevOps side that some of the fields need to update on Monday side. Not an option to invest time into setting up updates one by one.

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Up-voted, similar requirement, i need to periodically update the same column for 100s of work items in the same board/group. That’s not going to work having to run a single mutation over and over again!

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Any news on the bulk updating of Boards and Items through the API? I am building a sync between Monday and another platform and a bulk update feature is very much needed.

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Hello @jamieroyce and welcome to the community!

That feature is in our R&D team’s feature requests list.

Having said that, we do not have an ETA on it yet.

I will add your vote to it so hopefully it gets implemented soon :muscle:

Cheers,
-Matias

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My upvote as well. Any news on if/when this might get implemented?

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Hello @AntonioNA!

No updates on the ETA but I will add your vote to it :slightly_smiling_face:

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Also need a Bulk Edit/Add items, upvoted!

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upvoted, would like to not spam the API with column value update mutations that could be batched

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Hi @dipro ,

Is there any update on this?

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Hello @aquibk!

We do not have an update on this. But if that changes, we will announce it in our changelog!

Cheers,
Matias

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Please include my vote

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Hello @JeffHalbert and welcome to the community!

I hope you like it here :muscle:

I have added your vote to it!

Cheers,
Matias

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Please include my vote to this as well @Matias.Monday as it seems like an essential feature!