Trying to use the Files column to link to OneDrive files is… a tedious experience.
After initial (& slow!) loading, I’m getting an extremely barebones pop-up that always takes me back to either my root OneDrive folder, or a “Recent” search. Unless the file is in one of those two, it’s a long manual trek to get to its actual folder and link it.
… and then I gotta do this for every file I want to link to a different item! The Files column is fine for linking one file to many items, but not good for mapping many items to many files 1:1.
Is there a better way to do this?
I’ve thought about downloading my board into a CSV, mass-generating OneDrive links and putting them in the CSV too, and then importing it back… but that’s also a hassle and I think would force me to use a Link column instead.
It will link each board item with a folder in SharePoint and then the folder is displayed in an item view allowing you to drag and drop as many files as you wish into the folder for that item.
You can then view or download the file, and even edit the file in the desktop Word or Excel apps and it will save right back to the same place in Microsoft 365 – all this from within monday.com without context-switching from monday.com to Microsoft 365 and back.
It allows you to base the new folder off of a template, so you can prepopulate the folder with all the files that you need to work with. This is really handy in regulated industries or wherever you have repeatable tasks that conform to a standard procedure.
If you don’t need to create new folders, you can configure board items to link through to any folder in OneDrive for Business or in a SharePoint site.
