Board-Based Forms

Board-Based Forms

Board-based forms create new monday.com items from public form submissions. They are useful when you want one reusable intake link for a board instead of a separate form for an existing item.

How They Differ from Item Forms

Item form

The form is tied to an existing monday.com item. A successful submission updates that item's selected columns.

Board-based form

The form is tied to a board. A successful submission creates a new item on that board and writes the submitted column values to the new item.

Permanent vs Single-Use

Permanent link

A permanent board-based link keeps accepting submissions until you deactivate it. Each successful submission creates another item on the selected board.

Single-use link

A single-use link accepts one successful submission, creates one new item, and then closes. Used single-use links cannot be reactivated; create a new link when you need another response.

  1. Open Fill from a board context.
  2. Choose the board-based form flow.
  3. Select the columns respondents should fill.
  4. Configure field descriptions, validation rules, readonly fields, people allowlists, or connected-board allowlists where needed.
  5. Choose whether the link should be permanent or single-use, then generate and share the public URL.

Submission Behavior

When a respondent submits a board-based form, Fill creates a new monday.com item on the selected board and applies the submitted values to that item. The form uses the same validation system as item-bound forms.

File uploads: File columns are supported for item-bound forms, but board-based links do not currently support file uploads.

Board-based forms appear in the dashboard with the rest of your generated links. Permanent links can be deactivated and reactivated. Single-use links that have already been used are treated as completed.

Developers can also create board-based forms through the public API by sending target: 'board', a numeric boardId, and mode: 'permanent' or mode: 'single_use'.