Is there any way to create a task using Siri?

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Brad, I am setting this up for the first time, so it is all new.

Thanks for your help.

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Hi Chris,

OK, first time use helps explain that authorization message you were getting.

It sounds like you haven’t setup your Monday API key and/or your Board ID. Here is the text from my post explaining how to do that:

Hi @jpatricio, I created some documentation below on how to use the Shortcut I created. Please let me know how it works for you. I’m happy to answer questions if you run into trouble.

Introduction

I created this shortcut to allow me to add items to one of my Monday Boards while driving in the car. This shortcut allows me to say “hey siri Update Monday” and then add items to my Monday board.

Using the ShortCut

In order to use this shortcut, you will need your Monday API key and the Board ID of the board you want to update.

This link shows you how to get your Monday API key: https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005144659-Does-monday-com-have-an-API 5

Once you have the API key, paste this into the text box in the shortcut that says ‘Put-in-your-Monday-API-Key-Here’.

This link shows you how to get your Board ID: https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000225709-Board-item-column-and-automation-or-integration-ID-s 5

Once you have the Board ID, paste this into the text box in the shortcut that says ‘Put-in-your-Monday-Board-ID-Here’.

Rename the shortcut to whatever you want to call it when saying ‘hey siri’.

Limitations:

Despite what some of the Monday documentation says, the Group Name in your board is not the same as the Group ID (some of the documentation equates them). I probably could have written code to parse all the Group ID’s looking for a specific name, but I didn’t, so this will always add items to the first Group in your Board.

I ran into a similar problem with column names vs column ID’s. For some reason, the first date column I created had an ID of date4. That’s why in the shortcut, you will see that it is adding due date to a column ID called date4. You can use the above FAQ on Board ID to determine the column ID. You can then replace ‘date4’ in the text box that contains the code ‘,column_values: \”{\”date4\” which whatever your column ID is.

iPhone Shortcut Limitations

I had all kinds of trouble with setting this up. For example, I really wanted it to prompt for a date, but also let me say ‘no’ to a due date without have a separate prompt. When I first started trying it, I simply said ‘no’ to the due date questions. It turns out iPhone Shortcuts interprets this as wanting to end the shortcut. If you say ‘skip’ it jumps to the next shortcut. If you say ‘none’, it tries to set an alarm. What I discovered was that iPhone Shortcuts have all kinds of hidden reserved words. So, I settled on saying ‘no due date’ if there was no date.

Here is a link to the ShortCut

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8cb0795a03fd4d8194021cf4cda48db7 14

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Brad, I did set up both of those using these same instructions. Is there anything other than the API key and Board ID?

Chris

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These are the only two items. The API Key is used as the authorization string using an https post method call to https://api.monday.com/v2

The Board ID is used to update the appropriate Monday board. Note that your Board ID should be numeric and not the ‘English’ name of the board that you see when using Monday. For reasons I dont’ understand, in Monday the Board ID is usually numeric, although sometimes it is alpha numeric.

Hope that is of some use.

… Brad

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Integrating Siri with Monday.com to create tasks can definitely streamline your workflow. Here’s a practical approach to set this up:

  1. Use Siri Shortcuts and Make.com:
  • Siri Shortcuts: Create custom shortcuts in the Shortcuts app on your iPhone. You can set up a shortcut that, when activated, sends the task details to a webhook.
  • Make.com Webhook: Set up a webhook in Make.com to receive data from Siri Shortcuts. This webhook will trigger an automation scenario to create a new task in Monday.com.
  1. Setting Up the Shortcut:
  • Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.
  • Create a new shortcut and use the “Text” action to capture the task details.
  • Add a “Get Contents of URL” action, where you’ll specify the URL of your Make.com webhook and pass the task details as JSON.
  1. Configuring the Webhook in Make.com:
  • Create a new scenario in Make.com.
  • Add a “Webhook” module and copy the webhook URL.
  • Set up the webhook to trigger when it receives a request from the Siri Shortcut.
  • Use the “Create Item” action in the Monday.com module to create a new task with the data received from the webhook.
  1. Voice Command with Siri:
  • Assign a voice command to your shortcut in the Shortcuts app (e.g., “Hey Siri, create a Monday task”).
  • Now, you can use this voice command to trigger the shortcut and create tasks in Monday.com via Siri.