Using drop downs populated from a form and tyrning them unto sub items

Hi Monday Fam!

Inhave a form that captures requests for support and gives the form completer a few drop down options where they can ask for support on more than one item in the same request.

When this form comes through as an item, i want those drop downs to automatically populate sub items off the original.

Any easy way of doing this?

Hello @Rachhoward ,

Welcome to the monday community! :muscle:

The best you can do using only monday should be the following :

Essentially for each value in the dropdown column, you create one such automation. If you have for example 5 values in the dropdown column, you would need 5 automations, each one containing one of the values.

You can also name the subitems getting created based on that value.

Hope this helps!

Giannis, Implementation Consultant at thespelas.com

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Thank You sooooo much, this was helpful

However, to add complexity, i only want sub items to be populated IF multiple are selected from a drop down.

Can we do this?

Hello @Rachhoward ,

You certainly can! Just recreate the automation and choose all the labels that need to be contained!

Best,
Giannis

Hi @Rachhoward ,

We recently launched the app Special Automations - monday.com App Marketplace which has the required automation recipe for your use case.



Also if you want any other automation, do let us know at support@superworkday.com

Thanks

Hi there,

This can be also achieved with Subitems Pro Automations app. It includes recipes for creating subitems for each dropdown label or each selected dropdown value.

Create subitem for each dropdown label


Demo:

Create subitem for each dropdown value


Demo:

If you have any questions or requests for custom automations, feel free to reach out to us!