Execute File Upload and Create Item in the same mutation?

Hi @gmrstudios

What I do (in Wordpress PHP) is to create the item and use the returned id to do the file upload in a column. Something like this?

Hey @gmrstudios.
As said by @basdebruin, I don’t see the problem in using two queries.
The first query will return the ID of the item just created, that you will use then to upload the file.

Hey @basdebruin and @rob

Thank you so much for your input here! I really appreciate your help, you guys are the best.

@gmrstudios is the solution provided above working well for you? Let us know 🙂

-Alex

Thank you @rob @basdebruin. What is the best way to pull that ID after its inserted? Just reference it after the first query is returned?

Don’t know if I fully understand your question. The create_item mutation returns anything you want from the item. In the example given I only asked for the id. You can use that item id in follow up mutations to add files to a file column.

It’s directly returned by the creation query.
It’s not like MySQL where you need to use last_inserted_id.

Something like this?

$obj = json_decode($response);
$item_id = $obj->data->create_item->id;

Yes, when you create a new item.

mutation {
  create_item(board_id: BOARD_ID, group_id: "GROUP_ID", item_name: "New item") {
    id
  }
}

You’ll get ID of the item just created.

data: {
  create_item: {
    id: ITEM_ID
  }
}