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Hey guys. This post is for those who, like me, is confused about the monday create_item mutation, specifically the column_values parameter, allowing to set values for other columns than the default name column.


For me it worked just fine to set any text field like this; {"field": "value"}, and that’s as far as the Monday API documentation goes, but if you want to fill non-normal fields, like email or phone, the format is different, like this;


{"email": { "text": "text to appear in the column - often the email",  "email": "test@test.com" }}

And for the phone field format, it should look like this;


{"phone": { "text": "text to appear in the column (phone numer...?)",  "phone": "+123123123" }}

Full cURL request for your convenience;


curl --location --request POST 'https://api.monday.com/v2' \\

--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\

--header 'Authorization: {YOUR_KEY_HERE}' \\

--data-raw '{"query":"mutation {\\r\\n  create_item(board_id: 611638622, item_name: \\"My Item\\", group_id: \\"new_group\\", column_values: \\"{\\\\\\"phone\\\\\\":{\\\\\\"text\\\\\\": \\\\\\"test\\\\\\", \\\\\\"phone\\\\\\": \\\\\\"14153685\\\\\\"}}\\") {\\r\\n    id\\r\\n  }\\r\\n}","variables":{}}'

Hope this helps someone not Google in vain.

awesome quick tip!


I just want to point out where you can find this in the docs:



There are two separate formats available for many of the column types: “simple” or “JSON” mode. You can find various references to the two different modes sprinkled throughout the docs, but there’s not really a central place that makes it clear. The best-documented place is probably the change_simple_column_value mutation oddly.


Hopefully this helps others, too!

These links are broken.

Hello there @jparty,


You can find the links here:


Email column

Phone column

Change column values


You can also find a Postman collection with examples here 😀


Cheers,

Matias

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