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Creating items with tags

  • October 25, 2020
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I am experiencing difficulty creating items with tag column values. The items create, but the tag values are not being set.

I saw from this previous question that tags need to be created and then passed as ID to the create_item call:

So my first mutation to create the tag is this:

mutation { create_or_get_tag (tag_name: "myNewTag", board_id: 785566686) {
		id
	} 
}

I then use that ID to create the item with the tag_ids like so:

mutation { 
      create_item (
        board_id: 785566686, 
        group_id: "group_title", 
        item_name: "item_name",
        column_values: "{\\"status\\":{\\"label\\":\\"Medium\\"},\\"tag\\":{\\"tag_ids\\":[7481612]}}"
        ) { id } 
}

When I perform that mutation from the API explorer, it is successful, but I am not seeing the tag on the new item in my board. Is there something wrong with the way I am trying set the tag values in the column_values? ( note, status does set correctly ).

cc / @Scott-monday.com

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    dsilva
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    • dsilva
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    • October 27, 2020

    Hey @mdev - welcome to the community!

    The create_or_get_tag mutation is fairly new - let me try and re-create this behavior on my end with the team and get back to you.

    Could you let me know if this was previously working for you?

    -Daniel

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    • mdev
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    • October 28, 2020

    @dsilva No, I wasn’t able to get it to work from the api explorer or from the monday javascript sdk.

    Here is a clip of the issue:

    monday-api-tag-issue
    dsilva
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    • dsilva
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    • November 3, 2020

    Hey @mdev - apologies for the delay! This took a bit more testing on our end to resolve.

    We used the following query to create the tag and get the ID, just like the one you posted above:

    mutation { create_or_get_tag (tag_name: "HelloWorld", board_id: xxxx) {
		id
	} 
}

    From there, we modified the ‘create_item’ query you provided to send the information needed to the API in JSON format:

    mutation { 
      create_item (
        board_id: xxxxx, 
        item_name: "This is my item",
        column_values:"{\\"tags\\":{\\"tag_ids\\":[7583426]}}"
        ) { id } 
}

    One thing I did notice is that if a board does not have any tags at all, you won’t see them appear until you refresh your browser.

    Hope this helps!

    -Daniel

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    • mdev
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    • November 10, 2020

    @dsilva

    It looks like the issue was the tag column name I was using. the actual name value had to be tags36 for my particular case.

    I guess ill need to query the board to check which column is a tag type to determine the name before creating the item, rather than assuming it will always be tags.

    Thank you!

    T
    • tuesdayman
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    • November 18, 2020

    Reviving this threat - I tried the following:

    vars = {"myItemName": "test!","columnVals": json.dumps({"link": {"url":"wwww.google.com","text":"google.com"},"people1":"14123922,12472244","tags":{"tag_ids":"#fdfd3"}}),}

    The name hasn’t changed in my case. The tag doesn’t appear at all - even after reloading the page.

    dsilva
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    • dsilva
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    • November 19, 2020

    Hey @tuesdayman - could you try the above query without the number sign?

    -Daniel

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    • tuesdayman
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    • November 20, 2020

    @dsilva the entire query results in no output.

    See below:

    vars = {"myItemName": "2342323!","columnVals": json.dumps({"link": {"url":"wwww.google.com","text":"google.com"},"people1":"14123922,12472244","timeline":{"from":"2019-06-03", "to":"2019-06-15"},"tags":{"tag_ids":"fdfd3"}})}
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    • mdev
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    • November 21, 2020

    @tuesdayman Should columnVals be column_vals? Have you tried using the API explorer?

    If you use it, you can also confirm the tag name / id values for the board you are trying to create an item for.

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