API & Apps framework

Hi all I am starting to use the SDK to develop apps with dashboard features. I am just building some proof of concept simple apps at the moment, to test API queries. I am able to upload an app as a dashboard feature, query data using the sdk and render it, which is great. I am taking advantage of seamless auth provided by the monday.api() method. I now would like to start developing more efficiently, so i am trying to pass a token with the queries, so that i can debug in my local environment (rather than having to build and upload every time). I have tried using monday.setToken(‘api_token_provided_in_the_admin_section_of_monday.com’) and i have also tried passing the same within the options parameter of the monday.api method. when running locally, the api returns the error saying i am not authenticated (as if i had passed an incorrect token or no token at all). I triple checked the token i am passing. I am using the same in a raw query using Postman and that returns the data i expect.

Hi, I’m looking at building an app in the Monday.com framework which uses some data from a Monday board and also uses data external to Monday.com by calling an API. As a test I have followed the Quickstart guide which allows you to show data from the Monday API as a string in the view setup panel. I have then modified it to call and store data from an external (non-monday) api and display that as a string. The data is displayed absolutely fine when run at my local host, however in the Monday app view setup preview section the string pulled through from the non-monday API doesn’t appear. This seems odd as these are running at the same time from the same file (one at the local host and one exposed to monday.com via ngrok), is there some kind of permission I need to allow for apps in the Monday framework to access data from an external source? puzzled about why this data is not visible Many thanks

Hi Everyone, Good day! Sorry if this is a silly question but is there a best practice that we follow when we want to reference multiple column IDs (more than 5) from a recipe sentence? Is there a limit strictly enforced on the number of input fields of a custom action? Or maybe an alternative approach instead of creating a number of input fields, so that the sentence wouldn’t be that too lengthy? Thanks in advance!

Hi, I saw there is “Groups” option here in the default calendar view: Is that possible to add the option here? I can’t seem to find the option 😞

Hi there, I am creating a new View using the SDK Is there a way to get the current view, or current board on which the view is being created? I see queries to get all data, but don’t see a way to get the current board, or current view. Regards, Kranthi

Is it possible to make a custom board template? I know we can make board views, but I wanted to make a custom board template that would be generated on a button click or integration. This board ideally would only have the one custom view and no main table. Not sure what the best approach here is.

Hi I need to add new and retrieve Item conversations via API. Is this possible? Can I have a sample queries to do the above actions? Thank you Dinithi

Hey all, I’ve got some newbie questions regarding making an app for general usage using the Monday.com framework. I’m still trying to get my head around some basic concepts, so I apologize if these questions seem naive. When building a new feature>board – this is actually a board view and not a board per say. Correct? If so, do I need to create a specific board – with specific fields – using the API create board, or do I need to make a view that works with any board template? I would love to be able to make a board template and have the board view apply that template but I can’t find any documentation on how to do this. I’m assuming that the I need to add fields in the feature edit area, then import them into my react app via the api settings command. will this pull just those fields, or pull the entire content of the board using this view, or do I need to use the api boards query command. is there a React App component for implementing the Monday Table component? or do I nee

Hi I wanted to know whether it’s possible to write code and customize the current Kanban View? My requirement is to display conversations on the card itself without click on the conversation icon on the top right corner of the card. Just wanted to know whether it’s possible to write a monday.com app on top of current Kanban View with this requirement. Thanks Dinithi

Hi, May I know what is the logic behind the color you guys assign to the item in the calendar? Is there a list of color assigned follow by sequence? If yes, how many colors in total and what are the colors? Br YarHuoy

Hi there 👋, I’m building an item view. I’m trying to find out how to retrieve the Monday.com subdomaine (or url) of a user (I mean the xxx in xxx.monday.com). I need to build a link to an item. What is the best way to achieve that?

Hi there, Can we submit multiple entries to the Monday apps contest from one team? Thanks.

Hello! I am currently developing a monday.com app for the Apps challenge and my app highly relies on using its user’s Google Calendar data. The app is nearly finished(planing for completion by this Thursday), and it has a full google authentication flow that is required for each of its users. The problem with this is that Google requires that any apps accessing its user’s data go through an extensive verification process. I have already submitted my app to Google for approval but I am worried it might not get verified in time for November 30th. I was wondering if any of the community members have had experience getting Google Oauth verification and know of anyways to speed up this process. Also, this might be a longshot but since monday.com itself uses Google authentication and uses numerous Google integrations do you all have a way I could leverage monday.com’s usage of Google to get his verification process done faster? Any help is much appreciated, Eric Detjen

I did some debugging because of an issue and found out that if my backend (using an integration) is sending 401 or 403 status back to a request from a custom action, the request is send again and again. Is this expected behavior?

Is there any way to test/use a workspace template that I created in my app before publishing the app? Just like I can create integration recipes and use them in my workspace, I also want to test my workspace template. Is there any way to do that?

I have one very general, slightly nebulous question, which is basically: does anybody have any tips on building apps (board views, dashboard widgets, etc.) using more than just React, and specifically integrating code written in jQuery or plain javascript into the default React infrastructure? I’m fairly new to web development in general, and don’t have much experience in using these tools in isolation, let alone trying to combine them! 😬 There seem to be plenty of pitfalls, both in the coding, and in the use of the build tools. My other question is related, but more specific. Combining React and plain javascript, the only way I have so far been able to get the sdk working in both is to load it twice. That is, in addition to the automatically generated (by following the quickstart example procedure) import and monday = mondaySdk() code in App.js, I’ve added two script blocks - src=…/main.js and mond= mondaySdk() to index.html, so that I can access the api via the mond object

I am creating an integration that sends data from monday.com to an external application. The integration flow is as such: Whenever an item is created or updated in a board, the integration triggers my custom action url with the board ID from context. The custom trigger endpoint then uses the board ID to get data about the board (all the groups, columns and items) using the graphql API. To access the API, the app also includes oauth flow for Monday.com api. My question is: when I receive the update in my custom trigger endpoint, how do I decide which access token to use? All I receive in the custom trigger right now is the board id, and the oauth flow gives me the user id. How do I establish a relationship between the user and board? I also looked into custom entities, but it doesn’t seem to suit my use case.

Hi, I am trying to use below command to open item card on dashboard widget but it doesn’t seem to work . Is it supposed to work on dashboard or not ? monday.execute('openItemCard', { itemId: item.id }); I am getting below error Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘board_id’ of undefined at main-632ae7001070dd532a18.js:formatted:39221 at vendors-fe8637f4cddd6cf108b2.js:formatted:85878 at dispatch (vendors-fe8637f4cddd6cf108b2.js:formatted:1116) at main-632ae7001070dd532a18.js:formatted:39258 at vendors-fe8637f4cddd6cf108b2.js:formatted:85878 at vendors-fe8637f4cddd6cf108b2.js:formatted:1045 at n.value (main-632ae7001070dd532a18.js:formatted:146198) at a.receiveMessage (main-632ae7001070dd532a18.js:formatted:146028)

I’m looking to build an app that is essentially an event log. When new log entries come in from external systems, I would like the user(s) who are currently on call to be the only ones notified and/or assigned to them. Ideally there would be a board that represents the rota of who is on call at any given time, and an automation which is able to use this information. At first glance (as a newbie) this doesn’t appear possible purely within monday (i.e. using automations only), and would require an external application, using the api, perhaps to change who is subscribed to a board to reflect who is on call. Can anyone offer any suggestions about possible approaches to this?

Hi there 👋, When you open an item on the Monday App and you share it, you get something like: https://mondaycom.page.link/m3Fexxxxxxx How can we retrieve this link (with API or something else)? I would like to automatically generate a QR code to this link in a column.

Hey folks I am trying to build an integration. I have the Monday → to my app working well. Now I want to do my app → to Monday. So I created a new recipe with a custom trigger. And as an action I have change column value and connected to the trigger provides the value. I am then calling the trigger in my app with the following code let mondayWebhookCall = { method: 'POST', url: 'https://api-gw.monday.com/automations/apps-events/28711827', headers:{ 'Authorization': `${process.env.SIGNING_SECRET}`, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, data:{ trigger: { outputFields: { status : status, itemId : 882599396 } } } } let call = await axios(mondayWebhookCall) I receive a nice { success: true } message, but I see no change in the board 😦 Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks

I’m working on an app which incorporates an existing simple text editor and has hooks available for load and save operations. I’m not sure how best to implement the storage for this (together with some kind of directory listing UI to let users retrieve previously saved files). I was thinking of using the storage api, but I see reports of it being buggy at the moment? Would it be feasible to simply use a ‘long text’ column on a board instead? My minimum requirement is for individual users to be able to store and retrieve their own work. An added bonus would be to offer some form of sharing (subject to permissions) between users, so that they could collaborate on files. And a final, extra bonus would then be integration with Google Drive, etc., but that would be the cherry on top. 😀 Any thoughts?

I submitted an app to the current devpost hackathon - Monday Notebooks | Devpost It was somewhat unpolished; I was up against the deadline, but decided to submit rather than hold off for the next hackathon. After the deadline, I added some updates to the devpost page, without which anyone trying to test the app might struggle to know what to do. And today, I uploaded a minor but helpful change to the app itself, assuming that to be OK based on this thread - monday.com Apps Marketplace Challenge: solutions for teams : Build a work-altering app for one of these teams for the chance to win big! With $184,000 in total prizes we are giving away 3 Teslas, 10 MacBooks, and more! - Devpost I’m just not sure how visible any of this is. The analytics appears to show that there have been no installations of the app. I don’t know if that means it has yet to be looked at by the judges, or if snapshots of the entries were taken and installed elsewhere (which might explain the responses in the above

Hi I am trying to build a Monday app where the user should be able to select different groups from different boards. I can select the groups fine in preview mode but once I try it in a dashboard the settings ar not passed to the app, they seem to be saved as settings but i can’t get them though monday.listen(“settings”). I can however get other field typs info in. below is the code I’m using and I have added a standard groups field without changing any settings. Is this a problem someone knows how to solve or can reproduce? import React from "react"; import "./App.css"; import mondaySdk from "monday-sdk-js"; const monday = mondaySdk(); class App extends React.Component { constructor(props) { super(props); // Default state this.state = { settings: {}, name: "", }; } componentDidMount() { monday.listen("settings", res => { this.setState({ settings: res.data }); }); } render() { return <div className="App" > {JSON.st

I would like to read the values from two number widgets on a dashboard and display the sum of those values with another widget (which would have to be custom). Is there currently a way (using GraphQL queries or the monday SDK) for me to get the value a numbers widget is displaying? I’ve seen another topic somewhat similar to this one, requesting the ability to do math within dashboards but there hasn’t been much activity on the subject other than users expressing how desirable the feature would be. Here’s a link to that topic for those that are interested: Formulas within dashboards - #2 by Qassam-monday.com