Monday Create

Monday Create

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Create an item on a Monday board

Calls the create_item mutation. columnValues accepts a structured map and is encoded as a JSON string before being sent, matching Monday's JSON-in-JSON column values contract.

yaml
type: io.kestra.plugin.monday.items.Create

Create a simple item with a status and date column

yaml
id: monday_create_item
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: create
    type: io.kestra.plugin.monday.items.Create
    apiToken: "{{ secret('MONDAY_API_TOKEN') }}"
    boardId: "1234567890"
    itemName: "New lead"
    columnValues:
      status: { label: "Working on it" }
      date4: { date: "2025-01-01" }
Properties

Monday API token

Personal API v2 token. Generate it in Monday under Profile, Developers, My Access Tokens. Treat the token as a secret and prefer Kestra secrets, e.g. {{ secret('MONDAY_API_TOKEN') }}.

Target board id

Item name

Defaulthttps://api.monday.com/v2

Monday GraphQL endpoint

Override only for proxies or test fixtures (WireMock).

Default2024-10

Monday API version header

Sent as the API-Version header. See the Monday API versioning docs.

Column values

Map of column id to column value object. Serialized to JSON.

Defaultfalse

Create new label entries on status/dropdown columns when missing

Group id where the item is created

Optional. Defaults to the board's top group.

Default3

Maximum retry attempts

Number of attempts before giving up on transient Monday API errors (HTTP 429, COMPLEXITY_BUDGET_EXHAUSTED).

Reference (ref) of the pluginDefaults to apply to this task.

DefaultPT5S

Initial retry interval

Base wait between retry attempts. Doubles each attempt up to maxRetryInterval.

DefaultPT30S

Maximum retry interval

Cap on the exponentially-growing retry delay.