We just started using Monday this week, so I’m really new to all of this. My apologies in advance if I’m not using the correct terminology. I did search for this but couldn’t find anything definitive.
I started with the “Single Marketing Project” template just to play around. My test groups are:
Planning
Writing
Done
When a status is changed to DONE, the built-in automation moves it to the Done Tasks group. That’s great.
But what about the other direction? What if I need to “reopen” a DONE task (for whatever reason)?
Something like this:
If Status changes to Working On It
Then
Move item to [back to the original group it came from]
I can create an automation to move the task to a specific group but I can’t seem to tell it to “go back where you originally came from” – which could be any group.
I know you can drag and drop, but I was hoping there’d be an automation.
I hope all that makes sense. Thank you for your patience!
Thanks for your quick reply, Giannis! That would work if we used groups to indicate status like “In Progress.” But in this case, the main groups are functional – Planning, Writing, Done.
Items that end up in the Done group could come from any group – in this case, Planning or Writing. So if I change a status from “Done” to “Working on it” – I want the item to go back where it originally came from.
But in the automation, I can only choose a specific group to move it to. I can’t seem to find a way to say, “When Task1 status changes from Done to Working On it – AND if Task1 came from the Writing group – THEN move it back to the Writing group.” Similarly, if Task1 originally came from the Planning group, move it back to Planning.
I don’t want items that came from Writing to go back into Planning, for example.
GCavin
(Gilles Cavin - Reinventing Formulas in monday.com)
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Monday doesn’t keep a history of item group changes, so it can’t be done this way.
You may want to consider a different board structure: for instance, add a column for each of your stages. Like a “Planning” column (with values like Not Started, Working on it, Done) and a “Writing” column with the same values. Then you create automations to move the items to the Done group if planning and writing are set to Done (not sure if the items all go through both stages, if not, then only changing one of the 2 columns to Done moves the item to the Done group).
Then if you want to revert the automation, you can base it on the Planning and Writing column values.
I misunderstood your initial post. It is just like @GCavin is saying. There currently is no way to keep track of an item’s group history, so what he suggested and what you have actualized is the currently the best solution. Not perfect but should work for you.
