My team is starting to use Monday.com but we’ve hit a bit of a snag. We seem to need tasks to appear on multiple boards.
For instance, we have a task that is “call X board member about our fall conference”. I think it should go on our “Conference Planning” board but another colleague believes it should go in the “Board Communications” board. Is there a way to duplicate the task so that it lives in both places?
I see there is a function to mirror columns but that isn’t what I mean. I mean is there a way for the task to appear in two boards and then when the status gets updated on one board it is reflected in another board?
Unfortunately, there is no way to have tasks “live” on multiple boards. If you duplicated a task, it would have the same information, but would not be linked to the original task and would not autoupdate based on changes made to the original task.
Besides the mirror column, another option might be using a table widget in a dashboard, which would reflect all of an item (not just individual columns like the status column).
Can I asked why there isn’t any way to have tasks live on multiple boards? The two suggestions are essentially stop-gaps and don’t really fulfill the root goal, which is to have a task shared between boards so that users can update on either board. Mirror columns don’t fulfill this purpose because it requires making an entirely new column that may not be used for every task on a board (for example, if only a portion of tasks on a board are shared with the other, central board).
I’ve asked a similar question to this in this FAQ: Connecting Boards and Bi-directional Linkage
At the moment the only option we have to have an item show on two boards, and have updates made to the item reflect across the boards, would be via the mirror columns.
Otherwise the platform will recognise the items as two separate items on two separate boards, and will not keep the updates synced across the two items as changes are made.
I can definitely appreciate how this would be a useful addition to the platform for yourself, and I’m sure for other teams too, so I would highly recommend opening a thread in our Feature Request section.
Here other users who would also like this added to the platform will be able to upvote the feature!
You can find this here: Submit an Idea - monday Community Forum
Having one task across multiple boards is extremely useful as it allows multiple units to see the same updates and w/o having the user to update in multiple places. Terrible monday doesn’t recognize the power of the feature i thought it would be out of the box like Wrike.
Yup, this will really cause us issues. The manual overhead will be a genuine problem. Clickup and Asana have similar functionality for sharing to multiple boards, albeit each works slightly differently. It’s disappointing it’s not even in the conversation with Monday.
We really need this feature at our company – it’s incredibly difficult to manage projects across boards without this functionality. Would love for Monday to consider coming up with a solution to make this possible. Other programs I have worked with have this functionality and it’s so helpful.
Hi @MrsKrysJ , due to popular demand from the user, we’ve developed an app that does this. It’s called Same Item Multiple Boards by Formula Lookout. It’s now available in the marketplace. Here’s a direct install link if you want to try monday.com: Where Teams Get Work Done
Hi @mlebovitz , you’re exactly right, mirroring can’t do it. Formula Lookout has developed an app now available in the marketplace called Same Item Multiple Boards
