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Hello!

I am running what I believe to be a simple mutation and I cannot get it to work, I keep getting { “error_message”: “Internal server error”, “status_code”: 500 }. I have tried both the change_multiple_column_values and change_column_value approaches. Searching the forums, I have seen folks say this can be caused by a malformed request string but I am unable to see that. Help is appreciated.

	mutation {
		change_multiple_column_values(
			board_id: 2588471113,
			item_id: 2643558945,
			column_values: "{\\"connect_boards30\\":{\\"item_ids\\":\\"2643558944\\"}}"
		) {
			id
		}
	}

This is generated programmatically from this:

	let mutation = `mutation {
				change_multiple_column_values(
					board_id: 2588471113,
					item_id: ${createdSubItemId},
					column_values: ${JSON.stringify(updatedColumnValues)}
			) {
				id
			}
		}`

Of note:

  1. My board_id references a sub_items board if that makes a difference.
  2. I have tried the query both in my code and directly on the Monday.com API playground.

Thanks!
Michael

hi @mbalazs

Welcome to the community! It looks like your value is wrong, try this one:

mutation {
  change_column_value(board_id: 2588471113, item_id: 2643558945, column_id:"connect_boards30", value: "{\\"linkedPulseIds\\":[{\\"linkedPulseId\\":2643558944}]}") {
    id
  }
}

And do not escape integer values (only strings).

Awesome thanks! That did it. I had tried to follow what I saw here.

Following up, when I try in nodejs I get the following…

{
  errors: [
    {
      message: 'Parse error on ":[{" (STRING) at [5, 28]',
      locations: [Array]
    }
  ],
  account_id: 11715703
}

…running this code…

	let mutation = `mutation {
  change_column_value(board_id: 2588471113,
    item_id: 2643558945,
    column_id: "connect_boards30",
    value: "{\\"linkedPulseIds\\":[{\\"linkedPulseId\\":2643558944}]}") {
    id
  }
}`

	console.log(mutation);

	monday.api(mutation).then(res => {
		if (Object.keys(res).includes("errors")) {
			console.log(res)
		}
	})

For future note, I found this worked:

	let x = {
		"linkedPulseIds": [{
			"linkedPulseId": 2643558944
		}]
	}

	let mutation = `mutation {
  change_column_value(board_id: 2588471113,
    item_id: 2643558945,
    column_id: "connect_boards30",
    value: ${JSON.stringify(JSON.stringify(x))}) {
    id
    }
  }

Got it from here: Parsing Error: No error on playground, error in JavaScript

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