@smatz wouldn’t it be so much cleaner, it is funny how a program like Monday that is meant to managing tasks/projects easier is somehow making it harder having to double handle and duplicate two versions of the same task…
It certainly is @peter_w something so simple yet it would make everyone’s live on Monday 1000 times easier. Sadly I keep seeing more and more people leaving Monday due to missing this basic functionality as their competitors have it.
I’m another voice waiting to be heard!! Having a project column with these features would greatly improve all our workflow on Monday.com and enable it to be used by the whole company together - not only no sumir teams working separately.
This is hugely important! @monday-team
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We have the same problem. A - must have for all (larger) organizations. For example we need to have a task on a project board, a functional/ team board and an individual board for each employee at the same time and somehow easily linked. Any help or advice is highly welcome.
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Has any progress been made on this feature? It would certainly be helpful! A response from Monday would be even better!
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Unsure if Monday.com have any intention of making a feature like this but clearly people want it so if it gets enough votes and attention I am sure they will do something about it.
Hi all,
Thanks so much for your patience with us - we apologise for the delay in updating this thread. We are currently working on a process to improve our responsiveness not only within the community but in specifically addressing feature requests, so appreciate your patience with us. I did want to jump in just to check I am understanding the request correctly - to confirm, you’re requesting the ability to easily mirror an entire board within the connect boards column, without having to manually select each item from each board, which would majorly increase efficiency in connecting boards/projects across other boards/workspaces - is my understanding correct?
I ask this, as we currently have this particular thread open Mirror Column - Select Entire Board or Group, and wanted to check if the two threads are addressing the same feature request? Please let me know, as we plan to close this smaller thread in an attempt to consolidate all votes, and better prioritise this feature request based upon the total amount of votes 
Thank you!
I see a lot of people asking for subtasks and what I want is not quite that. I am unsure if I’m using the Link and Mirror columns incorrectly.
I have a high board (strategic projects) and low board (tactical work items) and I was thinking I could use the Link function to establish a “bi-directional link” - a Link column on each board, linking to the other. The thought is that when someone is adding a tactical item, one of their columns would be to choose the strategic item it rolls up to. In doing that, back on the Strategic board, the “list of items” is automatically populated by the choices made on the tactical board. i.e, you could start to see all the down-level tactical items associated with that strategy.
In actual practice, I can make a link column (with mirror) on both sides, but they seem to operate independent of each other. The tactical board lists a strategy, but then I can go to the strategy board and see it’s blank (mirror column of status I’m pulling as well as “0 items”) and then I can select a completely independent set of tactical items on that same strategy.
Am I making sense / doing something wrong / trying something the tool isn’t capable of?
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Hi @Idolwild, I can very much relate to your wish of being able to create a workflow like you describe. In fact i described somewhat of the same in Two-way linked with 'Link To Item' column (potential subtask solution)
Another usecase for me would be working on one high level planning board and connect items (tasks) from another board via two-way LTI column.
Cheers,
Eltjo
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Hey @Idolwild - welcome to the community! Currently the link to item column, indicates when you connect one item from one board to an item(s) to another board - the only thing it actually does it create that first set of linking and shows they are linked, though no changes will be made without the use of the Mirror column or automations.
Would you mind elaborating a bit further on how you would expect the linking/roll up feature to work? We are in the process of working on changes to the mirror column to allow for rollups, one to many boards, etc.
Let me know!
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@brett-monday.com: I think it’s probably best if I just illustrate it using my real-world boards. Please keep in mind – I might still be using the field types incorrectly, so please excuse if this is already possible and I’m just doing something wrong.
I have the following HIGH-level board that lists out the projects one of my teams is working on. It has the fields below – you can see I’ve added a mirror/link column set to look at my LOW-level sprint board with tactical items. For any given project, I can associate a number of pulses from the sprint board, in any sprint grouping. The below is the interface provided:
This interface is OK and serves the purpose of associating down-level tactical work with the project. However, instead of doing the spec from top-down, why not bottom-up?
This is the board with my tactical items and its associated columns. We use one-week sprints, each sprint is a group, the top-most being the current week’s sprint. My people are on this board all day long, putting in their work and maintaining their workflow at the tactical level. Sometimes they need to break items apart, sometimes consolidate, sometimes they need to put new work in.
For any given pulse they enter, I want them to associate it with one of our projects on the HIGH-level board – each item is, after all, a child of one of those parents. What I want to have happen is that when they DO select the project that the tactical pulse is associated with, it essentially would be the same end result as if I had checked the box next to that pulse at the higher level (the action specified in the second paragraph). That way, my people can be responsible for associating their work to a project when they enter it, instead of us having to filter through the projects, one at time, and then looking through the sprints for the work. I hope that makes sense!
Please let me know if I can elaborate further.
Hey @Idolwild - thanks for explaining here. To me it sounds like you are using a high level board with the link column to link to all of your lower level boards.
Would you be willing to do it the opposite from your current set up? Can you clarify on linking from your low level boards to your high level board would not work for you? Currently the mirror column is set up so that you can only link one board to another per column, whereas the link column you can link one to many.
Does that make sense? Would you be willing to use it from low to high?
Brett
I don’t really understand what you mean. Wherever you establish a link/mirror, the point is activity is not bi-directional reflected between boards. I can associate each sprint item with a project, but on the project board I would never know this occurred. Either that or the software is just confusing.
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@brett-monday.com - Ya, after some looking around, the things this person expresses in this post:
Are accurate, and my current challenge is described as “monday offers a very limited view of linked/mirrored relationships. The only way to see a linked relationship is to be on the linked board . If you are on the parent board, there’s no way to see an overview of the links.”
This makes managing tasks that roll up to a project from the project board impossible and Monday.com not really realistic to manage agile projects of any complexity. I hope you guys plan to fix this, else my search for an good product continues…
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I’m trying out Monday.com for the business I work for. I 100% agree with this sentiment–if there is a link made, why can’t it go back and forth on the boards? I’d like to use the link to allow one board to inform another board, but then send back different information from the 2nd board back to the first.
Well kuddo’s for this. I’m thinking the exact same. Just want bi-directional linking as in any other database kind of platform… Notion, Filemaker, AirTable… It’s Database 101, no?
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It is database 101 (referential fields) - to my knowledge it has never been solved in Monday.com and we struggle on. I haven’t been able to pay much attention to their feature releases due to the current hullabaloo, so maybe it’s been addressed.
An end result of this issue is we manage everything at the tactical level because organizing the strategic level becomes too much work. So, we have very messy sprint planning.
@brett-monday.com never responded so I don’t know if anything ever became of it or if they have any interest in fixing it. Notion is becoming attractive, even with it’s steep learning curve.
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Their support team has mentioned it will be released in Q2 but who knows anymore.
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i support that idea. Olso optimization for loading data from the linked board. I have a board for NGO members 10K, I have second board for donation entries where I have linked a column to a NGO members board and mirror email, name and last name. when I want to connect board member to a donation entry it takes more time to load the data from members board than to go on crossboards search and find a company that matches the payment.
there is one other important thing. search in a link to item column searches only main column, instead of all entries in columns from linked board.
to explain why is that important: When a member pays a donation they write their VAT number and that is the onlu reference to connect payment to a member.