Any integration / app / workaround for Reporting item info to a PDF?

@basdebruin any App solution!??!?!

hi @hlopezvc

Not that I am aware off, interesting idea though to do kind of integration between monday and a form builder. Which form builder would be your preference?

Hi @basdebruin
Its a form builder concept but not for sending forms (so as not to confuse the monday.com forms or google forms). The concept is something like de Ms Access report designer.
You can setup a report header (with the company logo), a page header with all the information, a report footer, you are free to place to fields (columns) wherever you want.

This (if this can do internally from monday or a view app) will provide a custom experience for monday.com users and can be used too for edit or put new pulses on the board.

But the main use case is to report, or printing the pulse information in a professional way.

@hlopezvc, are there any existing platforms that make documents in the format you mentioned above? How do you create these records now? I’d be curious to see if the existing platforms have connections with monday.com through Zapier or Integromat 🙂

Hi @TRB-monday.com

I really dont know, we are jumping with you at 4.0 technologies, before Monday we were (and we still are) using local software made here in Argentina.- As an ISO 9001 certified company we have tons of records, forms to show, export o print. Im the admin for my company and everything you launch as new im in charge of analize and implement them.

But the problem is always the same, working online with monday is perfect, but when you need to go out and report for example a single board, making a report, customizing the way to enter the data in the boards antes de imprimir.

So, going back to your question, i dont know any other platform to integrate. Sorry but im old school (Access forms design era), thats why i ve put this capture to see what we want to achieve. Example if i want to print a report of a board with all his subitems, first i cant print subitems because they dont print iterated, and the i cant even have the chance to include my company logo on it.-

The chances to perform a professional report, or make a good impresion/report are low.

Is this still something that you need?

I’ve been working on a set of Excel macros that does this kind of stuff with monday Excel export files. The biggest difficulty I see is incorporating the subitems. It wouldn’t be impossible, but way more work.

We have the same issue, currently we export to excel, use macros to import the data from Monday.com then print to PDF. A direct export to our form from Monday.com would be a game changer.

There are some new apps in the app marketplace but I have found they are not sufficient for our needs. I have also looked at Integromat / Zapier to no avail but that could be somewhat related to my lack of experience using Integromat and Zapier…if it is possible it is probably a laborious task to setup.

The fact that these types of apps are showing up in the app marketplace would indicate that there is a need by many for export to customize PDF.

We can only hope they are developed quickly.

I am looking for a way to export single items from a board ideally into a pdf. However, I would be fine with an excel export that looks ‘presentable’ to a client if that was possible. It seems to me, that you already explored the options of excel exports. Do you know if it is possible to export single items from a board? And if not, could you give me some more infos on how to write the marcos, to at least have the whole board exported to Excel in a structured way?

@Berit,

To export a single item:

• Select the item by hovering over the item bar at the far left and click the checkbox when it opens.
• Click “export” on the popup window.

I created a set of VBA programs to format monday Excel exports. You can see a video here:

I had started adding PDF processing including print formatting and emailing of reports. But, I stopped because our users don’t currently need it and although there seemed to be interest in the community, there was never any follow through after initial interest was expressed.

This type of integration would be very helpful for our team as well. Now that we are fully invested in monday I am trying to pull some of our other paid services into monday as well. We use a company called doForms which allows you to build very customizable forms with built in file attachments, barcode scanning, picture attachments, any text, dropdowns, checkboxes, AND also Signature capture!

Our team basically offered installation and service field work at multiple client sites every week on big and small projects and we like to do a data capture about the installation (project #, sales order#, Date, grab pictures, serial numbers, and a client signature most importantly. This is able to be captured from a mobile device via app or browser and also from a PC. ALL GREAT FEATURES that I would like to replace with monday.com! This all requires manual entry which is the only down-side whereas monday has some of the project data already where we use it to track projects and their status.

Where monday could be stronger if it were able to do most of the above in addition to pre-loading a customizable form entry view (somewhat in reverse of how forms works now) and stays in sync with the pulse. Basically what I want to see is when you click on a pulse and it brings up the updates / Info Boxes / Activity Log screen for their to be another tab with this customizable view that can be organized any way you like it. I see that tried something similar to this with one of their monday labs apps for Cards I believe but that card view wasn’t really able to be edited and would look like hot garbage if that was something you were trying to present to a client for an acceptance sign-off on a large project. I want drag and drop, resizing, ability to organize the pulse items and how they look (radio buttons, drop down, date pickers, people pickers, file upload with picture thumbnails, etc). This fantastic editable form view should also be something that can be emailed in pdf format once completed and emailed to the client if there is an email column for them, the “people” selected like project manager, sales person, and person filling it out the form with the client.

I would find integration like this much more useful to many people as opposed to many of the apps that have been created. Monday is so powerful and seemingly has ability to do much of this but I think there needs to be development into also making it a badass form builder so that it can replace other platforms that are doing that part better but those suffer on the database side. This would also take us from a 20 seat license up to 40-50 as we would be able to increase the amount of users coming off one platform into monday.

Hey all! You can find a 3rd party App in our Apps Marketplace called DocuGen that can create documents based off of a template that you have created with your board column data as the inputs in the document!

Do note that third-party apps listed here were not developed by the monday.com team. As such, we don’t have any control over their functionality – and do not provide support for setting them up. Our team has reviewed them against our security and privacy guidelines, but we cannot fully endorse it.

If you do want to try it out, I’d recommend checking out the app details in the marketplace. You can review the app’s documentation (and applicable privacy policies) and install it if you choose.

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