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Clearing a column is as easy as sending a “” to it, don’t forget to JSON.stringify it.


Except for long-text and people column where you need to send {} 🙁


That was until recently. Somewhere beginning of March the people column can’t be cleared in this way. You need to do a column mutation:


mutation {
change_column_value(
board_id: 1111111111,
item_id: 1122334455,
column_id: "person",
value: "{\\"removed_person_or_team\\":{\\"id\\":12345678,\\"kind\\":\\"person\\"},\\"persons_and_teams\\":e{\\"id\\":12345678,\\"kind\\":\\"person\\"}]}"
) {
id
}
}

EDIT: luckily there is another (undocumented) way to clear completely:


mutation {
change_column_value(
board_id: 1234567,
item_id: 112233445566,
column_id: "people",
value: "{\\"clear_all\\": true}"
) {
id
}
}

What does this mean? What is column mutation?


I use make.com to migrate data. And it doesnt accept empty values


To clear a people column, you have to send "{\\"clear_all\\": true}" to the column.


@onurbolaca


When using Make, some of the edge cases are best handled by calling the API directly by using the Make monday module “Execute a GraphQL Query”. This is the case here. You can use the basic syntax that Bas gave you to construct the GraphQL call.




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