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Monday API v2 - update column person

  • March 25, 2020
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R

Hi

I’m trying to send a mutation to create a new item on the board and populate all columns. Everything seems to work except for the “person” column. No errors in the response.

request

mutation {
create_item (board_id: 505100819, group_id: "topics", item_name: "test_name", column_values:"{\\"person\\":{\\"id\\":12307363},\\"status\\":{\\"label\\":\\"Done\\"},\\"date4\\":{\\"date\\":\\"2019-06-03\\"}}") {
    id
}
}

response

 {
        "data": {
            "create_item": {
                "id": "505328688"
            }
        },
        "account_id": 5530601
}

I’m kind of lost why is this not working

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5 replies

grt-s
  • grt-s
  • Participating Frequently
  • March 26, 2020

You may find that your ‘person’ column is in fact now a ‘persons’ column. Thus you will need to use the slightly different syntax specified in the API doco for that column type. I had the same mistake.

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  • Johnathon
  • New Participant
  • March 27, 2020

@rgusciora try this:

\\"person\\":{\\"personsAndTeams\\":[{\\"id\\":12307363,\\"kind\\":\\"person\\"}]},

https://monday.com/developers/v2#column-values-section-people

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    • rgusciora
    • Author
    • New Participant
    • March 27, 2020

    Thanks, Johnathon that worked.

    @dipro this feels like it should be clarified/added to the documentation. Right now Monday.com documentation has tow distinct item “owner” types person and personsAndTeams. In this case, the person contains personsAndTeams, it’s a combo of the previous two types, or maybe just add an example for this use case.

      dipro
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      • dipro
      • Leader
      • August 3, 2020

      Hey folks! Just wanted to update you saying that we added some copy to our documentation explaining the difference between the “Person” and “People” column.

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      • Anonymous
      • February 25, 2021

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