Right now, any updates posted on subitems are not reflect in the activity part of a board (viewable in the upper right). They also can’t be seen by adding the updates section a dashboard. The only way to see a list of all updates in subitems is by clicking on each parent item individually. This is very cumbersome, as some boards may have 10 parent items and each of those may have 20 subitems.
To be more clear, the request is for board updates activity to include subitems. Right now, the information is incomplete. My team uses the activity log to go through the latest updates for the board and cannot do so because the subitem activity is not included.
Hi @KB11,
This is a good point and the activity module can be cumbersome to navigate with larger boards. Not to fear though, there is a way!
- Add a date column to subitem level naming it last conversation.
- Set and automation of When update is made, then set date in last conversation to today.
- Make sure you also have Last Updated System column as well in both levels
- Then you can create a dashboard where you show all recent updates in the update feed, a table view of recent updates as well in last 7 days and a KPI graph of goals for 7 day updates and which ones need it.
Hope this triggers some good ideas for empowering your users!
Mike B
Automation Architect
Interesting workaround. Seems quite complex, especially if you have to add one of those for all of your boards! But as you said there is a way. I look forward to when it gets added to the board updates activity section!
I tried setting up that automation, but it is not finding the date column in the subitem…
Looks like you need to add a date column to your board to house the updated date!
You can click add column in the automation or add it to your board!
Would like to bump this thread. I am also looking for a solution to this problem.
Is there any way to get subitem Updates to show in the “Activity” section of the board? Potentially have subitem updates show in the parent item?
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Hey @brandonhuynh
We developed an app called subitem automations that’s can offer a workaround for this use case by allowing to automatically copy updates from the subitem to the parent item. Here’s how it works -
You can find it in the monday.com marketplace in the platform or here - monday.com: Apps Marketplace
Hope that helps!