Connecting Items Between Monday.com Boards Created from Managed Templates Using Make.com

Hi there!
I’m experiencing challenges with automating connections between boards created from Managed Templates in Monday.com using Make.com scenarios.

Current Setup

  • Using Monday.com Enterprise
  • Have a Make.com scenario that creates two sub-boards when a new project item is created
  • The sub-boards are created from Managed Templates
  • Need to automatically connect items in sub-boards to the main project item

Technical Details

The GraphQL mutation works successfully in Monday’s API Playground:

mutation {
  change_multiple_column_values(item_id:1759049879, board_id:1593121308, column_values: "{\"connect_boards6__1\" : {\"item_ids\" : [\"1782943393\", \"1782943394\"]}}") {
    id
  }
}

Issues Encountered

  • The Make.com “Update Column” module doesn’t display the connect boards column
  • Using the “Execute a GraphQL Query” module with the same mutation returns an error
  • The problem seems to stem from Make.com’s limited access to columns connected to Managed Templates

Question

  1. Does anyone know how to enable access to Make or through a GraphQL query to a column of connected panels to which a template boards is connected?
  2. Does anyone have another idea how to automatically create sub-panels for a project and connect the items in them?

thank you very much!

I didn’t think it would be possible - interested to know if it is though!

This should work, I do this for a client where every time a new person joins the team, their board gets created, and that board connected to the parent board.

You could be experiencing the issue because you are connecting the item too quickly after the board is created, maybe let the board, and items be fully created, then use a single module to update the connected items.

You also want to check that the created sub board, has the same column ids as the parent board, they should be the same, but worth double checking.

Alternatively you could create the connected on the created sub board via the API, and connect the board there.

make.com is really strong tool, so something like this I expect is doable.

Hopefully, this helps!

Kofi FiftyTechSolutions.com

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