Hello! I’ve recently created several boards for automating documents in Monday in conjunction with Eledo and its been an absolutely incredible way for our company to go about generating estimates/contracts on the fly within in a matter of minutes. That being said, we’ve run into a flaw and I’m not entirely sure if there is actually a way of fixing it outside of scraping everything clean and starting over.
I’m going to try to describe this as best as a I can, so forgive me if some of this is redundant or not descriptive enough.
We started off by creating the boards with a few hundred columns that went about acting as individual item/price/file columns within Monday. At that point, we transferred it to Eledo (they have a step by step process on how to do everything) and created estimates for customers. All of it works perfectly fine.
Now to insert the problem and what I’m trying to see if there is a work around for.
When implementing anything into Eledo, it requires the user to import “Input Fields”. These are specifically the names that Monday.com gives to columns that users can’t actually see (not that I’m aware of) and appear to be generated names for each column that is created (example; item.numbers_92). Each of those columns works with Eledo inputs to create specific effect/information from Monday.com columns.
Here’s the actual problem. I recently had an employee ask about adding a specific column to everyone’s boards to increase the overall amount of columns. My thought had been that this would be fairly simple to do and just integrate it into Eledo after adding it to everyone’s boards individually (they had already been duplicated and created at this point based on an initial starting board). The problem that I discovered was occurring is that each user’s column is named a different name. Because I didn’t duplicate that column from the initial board, it was assigned an entirely seperate name, which means that there is no compatibility with the autogenerated pdfs on Eledo, because all of those boards have entirely seperately named columns that won’t match the inputs on Eledo.
AKA, autogenerating pdfs won’t work and the integration between Monday.com and Eledo breaks.
My question is, is there a way of making a column in Monday.com have a specifically generated input field (item.numbers_92) for columns that already exist, or is this something that is unsupported?
The long and short is that this creates a world of hurt on my end if it isn’t supported as it means I have to do a mass delete of team member’s boards any time we want to add new columns and move each member’s items from one board to a newly generated board duplicate of the original in order to keep the same inputs in place. If there is a potential work around for this, I’m definitely all ears.
