Disable Moving Items Unless Rule Has Passed

[rmoran (Richard Moran)]

We use a Monday.com board for work tracking. One group is our “queue” and once something is approved it gets dragged and dropped into the “awaiting” group for someone to pick it up when they have availability.

We have a column on each work item which is how much the client is paying us for the work. I want to prevent people from moving an item out of the “queue” into “awaiting” unless that “cost” column has a non-zero value. Is this possible? I can’t see a way of doing it and I’m hoping I’ve just missed something.

[kaylak]

Hi @rmoran ,

If you triggered the movement of items based on status I believe you could accomplish this. I’ve put the sample automation below:

The board would look like this and you can see I changed the status of “Item 1” to awaiting, but it didn’t move to the awaiting group because the value is 0, whereas the other items in the awaiting group did move because they had a positive value.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions

[rmoran (Richard Moran)]

We move them by just dragging them is it possible to prevent the drag and drop based on a rule like this one?

[kaylak]

@rmoran

I think one or both of these automations could work for that use case:

It depends on if the value is entered as 0 or if the column is left blank, but you could have both automations run to catch both use cases.

It doesn’t prevent the drag and drop from happening, but it does move the item back to the correct group if that would work