I am currently trialling monday.com on the basis it will save a lot of time in creating recurring monthly tasks using automations.
I am very surprised that the due date selection in create item automation works on a physical date rather than creation date plus number of days? I have an additional automation as a workaround but this doesn’t work for for subitems.
I would love to see this in both item creation and subitem creation.
Hi @CRad I think I might be confused about what you’re asking; but there seems to be an automation that does what you’re looking for
Yes, that’s it thanks but I dont think this is available for subitems?
It is a shame that this isn’t just in the same automation as the creation itself (i.e. you can only select the specific date).
Also can the trigger be ‘when another column changesor moved to group set due date to creation/move/another column date plus some days’?
Hi @CRad - You can do part of this, but not everything. In a custom Automation, you can automate setting a date to “today” and then immediately push the date by X days. So for example, you could have an item move and then automatically set a column to be today + 10 workdays. (Or even today - 10 workdays, you can “push” a date backwards as well as forwards).
Alas, you cannot yet use one date column as the base date instead of “today”. I too am eagerly awaiting when that’s available!
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@PolishedGeek How do you get it to automatically push it out? My goal is when a subitem is added, the due date is the following day. I’ve tried what you mentioned but since it makes me choose a time of day, which means it doesn’t trigger if that time has already passed.
I guess I could try to make it trigger at 11pm or something but if someone is in there working after that (between 11-12) then the due date won’t trigger on those items.
Sadly, the ability to set a date and add “days” to that date with push does not work with dates in sub items if you are using “date has passed”. You must use “Date Arrives”. You can CHECK the date in the sub item but it only allows you to select dates in the main for push, and not a date in the sub item.
Also, it would be VERY useful if the devs would allow you to pick a date upon creation of the record (both main and sub items) by typing in the date and something such as “+30” and have the date in the future be set. Much simpler than to create an automation. As it stands now, if you want to set a date in the future based on a date field + number of days, you can not do this with sub-items.
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Hey @CRad, @PolishedGeek, @TaylorTedesco, @SBuffum
We developed an app that solves this exact use case of and allows to automatically set date + X days when subitem was created or when its parent item’d date has changed. See below -
On creation -
When parent item’s date has changed -
We’re constantly adding new capabilities to it to make sure it’s easy and powerful to run automation on subitems just like it’s powerful on “regular” items.
You can find it in the monday.com marketplace in the platform or here - monday.com: Apps Marketplace
Hope that helps!