Hi all, I’m currently trying to create a Copilot Studio Agent that will allow me to add new items to a board. However, one of my boards has a Connect board column that is linked to another board and my Agent isn’t able to add/update that Connect board column. Does anyone have any experience adding/updating items to a connect board column through Copilot Agent? I tried looking to see if there are any kinds of automations I could use as a workaround but I can’t seem to find anything. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!!
You can’t currently update a Connect Boards column directly through a Copilot Studio Agent the same way you update regular columns. Connect Boards columns require the linked item’s internal ID from the other board, and Copilot doesn’t yet expose a simple action for that.
Workarounds usually involve:
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Using the Monday GraphQL API behind the scenes in a custom action to:
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Find the target item on the connected board and get its item ID
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Update the Connect Boards column with that ID
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Or restructuring your process so the connection is created by a Monday.com automation after the item is created (e.g., based on a matching value like name or status).
So far there’s no out‑of‑the‑box Copilot action or native automation that lets you directly map “friendly” values to a Connect Boards link without this kind of custom logic.
I’ve run into similar limitations with Copilot Agents. Connect board columns can be tricky because they’re essentially relational links, not simple values. In my experience, the Agent can’t directly update a Connect board column like a normal text or status column. A workaround I’ve used is to set up an automation that triggers when a new item is created—then the automation populates the Connect board column based on a matching value. It’s a bit indirect, but it gets the job done without manual intervention.
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