GUIDES
monday.com how-to guides
Step-by-step answers to the things teams ask most about monday.com: keeping the same item on several boards, working with subitems and mirror columns, filing Google Drive files, and making documents from items.
The same item on multiple boards
- How to add the same item to multiple boards
The native options compared, and the five-step setup.
- How to share an item to other boards
Share one item to other boards as the same editable item.
- How to put the same task on multiple boards
One task, worked from each team’s own board.
- How to copy an item to multiple boards
Put one item on several boards in one go.
- How to move an item to another board and keep it on both
Move to board takes the item off the first board. Here is how to keep it on both.
- How to share an item across workspaces
The same item on boards in different workspaces.
- How to sync items across boards automatically
Keep statuses, columns and updates aligned without copying.
- How to sync updates and comments between boards
One conversation on every board, posted as the person who wrote it.
- How to build a master board
One overview board built from every team’s items.
- How to send form submissions to multiple boards
Put each submission on every team board that needs it.
- Using AI assistants to put the same item on multiple boards
Why assistants connected through MCP or the API create copies, and the fix.
- Switching your item sync app? Five things to check
A checklist for comparing cross-board sync apps.
Subitems
- Can you mirror subitems in monday.com?
What works natively, where it stops, and what to use beyond it.
- How to copy subitems in monday.com
Duplicate, move, convert or sync: what each one really does.
- How to move a subitem to another board
As a subitem or a full item, kept in sync with the original.
Mirror columns
- Mirror columns: how they work, and the alternative
What mirror columns do, where they stop, and real items instead.
- Are monday.com mirror columns read-only?
Which mirrored values you can edit, and the limit that matters.
Google Drive
- How to attach Google Drive files to monday.com items
What monday.com does with Drive on its own, and how to file attachments automatically.
- How to auto-create Google Drive folders from monday.com items
A named Drive folder for every item, linked back on the item.
Documents, invoices and signatures
- How to generate a PDF from a monday.com item
Fill a document from the item’s columns and save it on the item.
- How to export a monday.com board to PDF
A clean PDF report, grouped like your board.
- How to create invoices and quotes in monday.com
Customer details from columns, one line per subitem, totals worked out.
- How to get documents signed in monday.com
Send a document for signature from an item.
- How to generate and sign contracts and NDAs in monday.com
A contract from the item, sent for signature when a deal is won.
- How to generate Word documents from monday.com with your own template
Turn any Word file into a template filled from the item.
- How to email a PDF from monday.com automatically
Send a PDF from the item from your own Gmail.
Setting up one of our apps? The help center has the setup steps for each one. More ideas on the blog.