Connect Boards Column Support

The monday Connect Boards Column allows you to link a column in one board to the items of other boards. Easyform’s Connect Boards field allows you to surface items from other boards within your form. That way a user can select these items when filling out your form.

Easyform supports the following Connect Boards field features:

• Limiting selection to a single item

• Displaying items from multiple connected boards

• Limiting items to specific boards when the column is connected to multiple boards

• ⚡️ Pro plan feature: Item default values - set default values for connected board columns that are hidden in the form

You can use this feature to do things like:

1. allow employees to report an issue at a particular work site (from a 'Work Sites' board)

2. allow users to select which of your offerings they want to hear more about (from a 'Service Offerings' board).

3. manage requests for business inventory (e.g. by allowing users to select items from an 'Inventory' board).

4. manage internal form submissions from employees (e.g. by allowing employees to select themselves from a dropdown linked to a 'Staff' board).

Limiting selection to a single item

You can choose whether users can select a single item from your Connect Boards field or multiple by toggling the Allow multiple selection button on or off:

Whether this is enabled or not is dependent on the Connect Board’s column settings. If this is disabled within the column’s settings on your monday board, then the option to enable it will not be available within Easyform.

Displaying items from multiple connected boards

If the column is connected to more than one board, these items will appear automatically grouped by board within your form.

Limiting items to specific connected boards

By default, items from all connected board will be displayed. To only display items from specific boards, toggle the Display items from all connected boards button off and then remove the boards you do not want to appear on your form:

Important security note: To make Easyform as secure as possible, your form only returns items from the Boards selected to the browser. That means that even if multiple boards are connected to the column, we will only return items that are specifically selected to be displayed.

Item Default Values

Easyform allows you to remove the Connect Boards column from the form and set a default value. A use case might be, for example, you pre-defined the client that will be filling out your form.

You can do this by removing the question from the form, going to the Item Default Value section and selecting the value you want to set.