monday.com Cross-Board Recipes Break on Board Duplication

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Cross-board logic should work. Not point to template boards.

Do monday.com cross-board automations break on duplication? You’ve built the perfect monday.com template board. It has cross-board automations that create items on your Production board when an event is confirmed, sync statuses with your CRM, and notify your Logistics team when travel is booked. You duplicate the board for a new project — and every single cross-board automation breaks. This is a critical limitation when automating project creation from templates, where cross-board workflows are essential.

The automations still exist on the new board. They’re active, toggled on, and show no errors in the automation center. But they’re pointing to the wrong boards — still referencing your original template boards instead of the newly duplicated boards in the new project folder.

BoardBridge — Form & Workflow Automation for monday.com — auto-remaps cross-board automation board IDs so they reference the correct new boards.

Why Cross-Board Automations Break on Board Duplication

Pain Point #35: Cross-board automations still reference template boards after duplication, causing workflows to fail silently

When you set up a cross-board automation, monday.com stores the board ID of the target board. Source: monday.com Developer Documentation and Community Reports For example:

“ When Status changes to "Confirmed", create item on Board ID: 987654321 “

When you duplicate the board, monday.com copies the automation rule itself, but not the board ID reference. The duplicated automation still points to:

“ Board ID: 987654321 (the original template board) “

Instead of:

“ Board ID: 123456789 (the newly created board in the new project) “

What Breaks

Typical cross-board automations on template boards:

• “When Status = Confirmed, create item on Production board” → Still points to template Production board
• “When Status changes, sync to CRM board” → Still points to template CRM board
• “When item created, notify Logistics board” → Still points to template Logistics board

This breakage extends to all types of cross-board automation workflows, making template-based project creation unreliable.

When your new project board tries to run these automations, they:

1. Look for the target board (e.g., template Production board)
2. Create items on the wrong board
3. Sync data to the wrong CRM
4. Notify the wrong Logistics team

Your new project’s workflow is completely broken, but you don’t know it because the automations appear active with no error messages.

The “Silent Failure” Problem

Users report this constantly:

“I duplicated my event board template, and the cross-board automations are running but creating items in the wrong places. It looks like they’re still pointing to the original template boards.” — Community thread: Cross-board automations broken on duplication

“This is killing our workflow. We don’t realize the automations are broken until items are being created on the wrong board and data is scattered everywhere.” — Community feedback: Silent automation failure

Even monday.com doesn’t automatically fix this — there’s no option to “remap board IDs on duplication.” Combined with issues like external integrations not duplicating and webhook subscriptions not transferring, board duplication creates multiple automation failures.

How BoardBridge Handles Cross-Board Automation Remapping

When BoardBridge creates a project (triggered by a CRM deal moving to “Won” or a manual button click), the cross-board automation board ID references are automatically remapped to point to the newly created boards. Source: BoardBridge Automation Remapping System

The Remapping Flow

1. Duplicate boards from template
2. Fetch all automations from the newly duplicated boards
3. Identify cross-board automation rules (rules that reference other board IDs)
4. Extract target board IDs from each automation
5. Look up the corresponding duplicate of each target board
6. Remap the automation to point to the newly duplicated target board
7. Save the updated automation so it references the correct new boards

How It Works

BoardBridge maintains a board mapping during project creation:

“ Template Board ID → New Project Board ID 987654321 (template Event Overview) → 111111111 (new Event Overview) 987654322 (template Production) → 111111112 (new Production) 987654323 (template CRM) → 111111113 (new CRM) “

When an automation says “create item on board 987654322”, BoardBridge rewrites it to “create item on board 111111112” — the corresponding new board.

Example: Event Confirmation Automation

Original (template board): “ When Status = "Confirmed", create item on Board 987654322 (Production) “

After duplication with remapping: “ When Status = "Confirmed", create item on Board 111111112 (new Project's Production) “

Now when the new Event Overview board detects a status change, it creates items on the correct Production board — the one in the same project.

All Automation Types Supported

BoardBridge remaps all cross-board automation triggers and actions:

• “When item created/updated/archived” → remap target board
• “Create item on [board]” → remap to new board
• “Update items on [board]” → remap to new board
• “Move item on [board]” → remap to new board
• “Notify [board]” → remap to new board

If an automation references multiple boards, each reference is remapped independently.

Real-World Scenario: Event Workflow Failure

An event management company uses cross-board automations for event workflows:

1. Event Overview board → When event status changes to “Confirmed”, create item on Production board
2. Production board → When all production tasks complete, sync back to CRM board
3. Logistics board → When travel is booked, notify the Vendor Coordination board

Before BoardBridge (broken automations):

1. Template boards are set up with all cross-board automations
2. New event is created (boards duplicated)
3. Event status changes to “Confirmed”
4. Automation triggers — creates item on template Production board (wrong!)
5. PM checks new project’s Production board — it’s empty
6. PM assumes automation didn’t fire, manually creates items
7. CRM board never gets synced (automation pointing to template CRM)
8. Vendor Coordination never gets notified (automation pointing to template Logistics)
9. Result: Chaotic, broken workflow; multiple manual fix-ups needed
10. Time to discover issue: Hours to days

With BoardBridge (auto-remapped automations):

1. Template boards set up with cross-board automations
2. New event created (boards duplicated + automations remapped)
3. Event status changes to “Confirmed”
4. Automation triggers — creates item on new project’s Production board (correct!)
5. PM checks new project’s Production board — item is there
6. Workflow continues: CRM syncs to correct CRM board, Vendor Coordination gets notified
7. Result: smooth workflow; no manual intervention
8. Time to discover issue: Zero (no issue to discover)

Why This Beats Manual Automation Remapping

Need	Manual Remapping	BoardBridge Auto-Remap
Cross-board automations work on duplicated boards	No — must fix manually	✓ Automatic remapping
Know that automations point to the right boards	No — silent failures	✓ Yes — verified before project ready
No manual logic audits needed	No — must check each automation	✓ Yes — all remapped automatically
Time to fix broken automations per project	30-45 minutes debugging	✓ Zero

How to Set It Up

1. Build your template board with cross-board automations (one-time setup)
2. Enable automation remapping in BoardBridge’s project creation config
3. Configure project creation trigger (usually CRM Won status)
4. Test: Create a test project and verify automations point to the new boards (check automation details in monday.com UI)
5. Deploy: Launch project creation, and all new projects will have correctly remapped automations

Common Questions

Q: Do monday.com automations work correctly on duplicated boards? A: No. Cross-board automations keep their original board ID references after duplication, so they point to template boards instead of newly created boards. BoardBridge auto-remaps automation board IDs so they reference the correct new boards.

Q: What if an automation references a board that wasn’t duplicated? A: If you duplicate boards A and B, but an automation on board A references board C (which you didn’t duplicate), the remapping can’t find board C. BoardBridge will log this as a warning — the automation keeps its original reference. You’d need to manually update it or duplicate board C.

Q: Does this work for all automation types? A: Most cross-board automations are supported (create item, update item, move item, notify). Some advanced automations with complex conditions may need manual review.

Q: Can I use automation remapping with nested boards or subitem automations? A: Currently, remapping works for cross-board item-level automations. Subitem automations and nested structures may require additional configuration.

Q: What if an automation references multiple boards? A: BoardBridge remaps each board reference independently. If automation A references boards B and C, both references are updated to point to the new boards.

Q: Does remapping happen instantly, or do I need to wait? A: Remapping happens synchronously during project creation. By the time project creation is complete, all automations are remapped and ready to use.

Q: Can I view which automations were remapped? A: Yes. BoardBridge logs all remappings in the project creation response. You can also view automation details in monday.com to verify they reference the correct boards.

Q: What if I need different automations on different project boards? A: Create different template boards with different automations. BoardBridge remaps automations on each template independently.

Who This Is For

This feature is built for teams who:

• Use cross-board automations on template boards
• Create multiple projects per month from those templates
• Can’t afford broken automations silently failing on new projects
• Want to avoid manual debugging of automation board ID references
• Need reliable, tested workflows that work the same way every time

If you’ve ever discovered that cross-board automations were pointing to the wrong boards, causing data to flow to the wrong places, automation remapping solves that.

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