Every 15 minutes
Create monday.com items from new sheet rows
Tasks you add to a Google Sheet show up on your monday.com board within 15 minutes.
- Runs
- Every 15 minutes
- Apps
- Google Sheets, monday.com
- AI
- Not needed
- Access
- Sheets edit; monday.com write
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 15 minutes, check my Tasks sheet for rows without an item ID, create an item on my monday.com board for each with the owner and due date, and write the item ID back to the row.
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Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Plenty of work starts life in a spreadsheet: an event checklist, a list from a client, tasks gathered in a meeting. Getting it onto the monday.com board means typing each one in again, so lists stay in the sheet and the board is never complete.
Creating items from new rows lets people keep using the sheet they like while the board stays the single place work is tracked.
What you get out of it
No re-typing
Tasks move from the sheet to the board on their own, with owner and due date.
People who don't use monday.com can contribute
Clients or colleagues add rows to a shared sheet without needing a monday.com seat.
The board stays complete
Everything in the sheet appears on the board, so planning and reporting include all the work.
Each row only once
The new item ID is written back to the row, so rows are never added twice.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every 15 minutes ClickRuntime reads your sheet and finds rows without an item ID.
Each one is created as an item on your monday.com board with its due date and notes.
The new item ID is written back to the row, so it is never added twice.
Before it runs live
- Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
- Connect monday.com
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
- Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Google Sheets and monday.com steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
import json
from clickruntime import on_trigger, report_fetched, credentials, http
SHEET_ID, BOARD = "your-spreadsheet-id", 1234567890
def monday(query, **variables):
resp = http.post("https://api.monday.com/v2", json={"query": query, "variables": variables},
headers={"Authorization": credentials.secret("MONDAY_API_TOKEN"), "API-Version": "2024-10"})
resp.raise_for_status()
return resp.json()["data"]
def sheets():
return build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values()
@on_trigger
def run(event):
rows = sheets().get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Tasks!A2:D").execute().get("values", [])
new = [(n, r + [""] * (4 - len(r))) for n, r in enumerate(rows, start=2) if r and r[0] and (len(r) < 4 or not r[3])]
report_fetched(len(new))
if not new:
return {"created": 0}
for n, (name, due, notes, _) in new:
cols = {"date": {"date": due} if due else None, "text": notes}
item = monday("mutation ($b: ID!, $n: String!, $c: JSON) { create_item(board_id: $b, item_name: $n, column_values: $c) { id } }",
b=BOARD, n=name, c=json.dumps({k: v for k, v in cols.items() if v}))["create_item"]["id"]
sheets().update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Tasks!D{n}", valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": [[item]]}).execute()
return {"created": len(new)}FAQ
Common questions
Which columns does the sheet need?
What if I edit a row after it's been added?
Can it add items to different groups?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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