Connect monday.com
Mirror monday.com boards into Laya with an API token: setup steps, which columns sync, timing and current limitations.
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Connecting monday.com mirrors your monday.com boards and their items into Laya as live, editable Connected boards. Your boards stay in monday.com, and Laya syncs changes both ways.
Why connect monday.com
- Mirror boards and items, whether the board tracks status with a Status column or with groups (kanban-lane style).
- Edit most column types from Laya: status, people, dates, text, numbers, tags and more write straight back.
- Read and post item updates (monday.com's comments) from the Laya side panel.
- Layer monday.com boards into master boards alongside other tools.
Before you start
monday.com connects with a personal API token. The connect screen shows where to find it: "In monday.com: Profile → Developers → My access tokens, then copy your personal API token and paste it below."
Connect step by step
- Start the connect flowFrom your workspace, create a new board and choose the connect option, or open the Connected tab and choose Connect monday.com.
- Pick monday.com as the sourceOn the "Which tool is it in?" screen, choose monday.com.
- Connect with your API tokenOn the "Connect with an API token" card, paste your token into the API token field and select Connect. The connection is created in the workspace you started the flow from.
- Choose boards to mirrorTick boards in the "Choose boards to mirror" list. Use search, Select all or Refresh to find them all.
- MirrorSelect Mirror N boards → and wait for "You're live in Laya", then Open board.
What syncs
Laya mirrors monday.com boards and their items. Item status comes from the board's Status column, or from its groups when there is no Status column. These column types are readable and editable from the Laya side panel and inline editors: text, numbers, email, phone, link, country, hour, long text, status, dropdown, date/datetime, people, tags, checkbox and timeline.
| Data | monday.com → Laya | Laya → monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| Items | Yes | Yes: create and edit items from Laya |
| Status | Yes, from the Status column or group | Yes, as a status label change or group move |
| People (assignees) | Yes | Yes, replacing the whole people set on each edit |
| Dates | Yes | Yes |
| Other columns (text, numbers, tags, …) | Yes: the types listed above | Yes, the same set |
| Updates (comments) | Yes, read in the side panel | Yes: post new updates |
| Subitems | No | No |
| Attachments (files) | No | No |
You can choose which columns drive Laya's signals: the column mapping drawer lets you pick which status, people and date column feed each one. Items imported as native Laya rows (via a master board) keep syncing a narrower set: title, status and due date push out to monday.com, and title and status flow back in. Priority, story points, assignee and issue type do not sync on imported rows.
Sync triggers and timing
- Laya → monday.com: immediate. Edits call the monday.com API as part of the action, with per-item badges showing Queued, Syncing, Synced or Failed.
- monday.com → Laya: instant push, set up for you. When you connect a board, Laya registers webhooks for it with monday.com, so new items and changes reach the board in a second or two. Registering them needs an account that may add webhooks to the board in monday.com; the board's badge shows Instant updates when they are in place.
- On demand. Use Sync now on the board ("Synced N item(s).") or from the connection's Boards tab to pull the latest at any time, including anything a webhook missed. Boards also refresh at mirror time.
- Background polling. Where Laya runs a 60-second poll for monday.com, it also refreshes mirrored boards; the Polling card in the connection's Settings tab says whether it runs for that connection, and its toggle switches it.
Managing the connection
Manage the connection from workspace Settings → integrations → monday.com: tabs Boards, Sync log and Settings, a health card ("Healthy", "Degraded" and so on, plus "Synced X ago"), + Mirror a board, the Polling toggle and Disconnect. See Managing connections.
Limitations
- Subitems are not mirrored or imported; subitem and progress columns are hidden.
- Priority, story points and issue type are not projected from monday.com at all.
- No attachment sync in either direction.
- Master-board imports from monday.com do not carry sprints (monday.com has no native sprint concept).
- People writes are full-replace at the monday.com API level.
- Instant updates need webhooks on the board, which Laya can register when the connected account may add webhooks to that board in monday.com; other boards update with Sync now.
Email support@laya.net and include what you expected, what happened, and a link to the affected board or item so we can help quickly.