Create item column_values with emails and other non-text fields
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_i
