Project Management migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Flow and monday Work Management. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in monday Work Management.
Flow
Source
monday Work Management
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 12
objects map 1:1 between Flow and monday Work Management.
Complexity
CModerate
Timeline
2-3 weeks
Overview
Flow has no documented public API, so we extract data through direct workspace access or CSV exports before the platform becomes inaccessible. We map Flow's flat Project and List hierarchy into monday.com's Board and Group structure, with each List becoming a Group and Projects mapping to Boards or top-level Groups depending on the chosen hierarchy model. Comments migrate as monday.com Updates attached to Items, and Custom Fields transfer as typed columns inferred from their values. Saved Views do not migrate as they are UI state, and Attachments require a manual browser-based download checklist that we produce during scoping. We deliver a written inventory of Flow Lists and Tags for the customer's admin to recreate as monday.com Groups and Tags after migration.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
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Object mapping
Each row shows how a Flow object lands in monday Work Management, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Flow
Task
monday Work Management
Item
1:1Flow Tasks map directly to monday.com Items. The Task title maps to Item name, description becomes the Item description or a text column, due date maps to a Date column, and assignee resolves to the monday.com User reference. Subtasks under a Flow Task map to monday.com Subitems if the destination plan supports them, or to child Items linked via a parent Item column if Subitems are unavailable.
Flow
Project
monday Work Management
Board or Group
1:manyFlow Projects have no direct monday.com equivalent because monday.com organizes work as Boards containing Items rather than standalone Project records. We map each Flow Project to a monday.com Board, or to a Group within an existing Board if the customer prefers consolidated Boards. Lists within a Flow Project become Groups within the mapped Board. Custom project-level properties become columns on each migrated Item.
Flow
Comment
monday Work Management
Update
1:1Flow Comments migrate to monday.com Updates attached to the corresponding Item. We preserve the comment body text, author name, and the timestamp returned by Flow (which may be date-only rather than full datetime). Updates are sequenced by timestamp. We flag in the validation report that chronological ordering of comments may be approximate due to Flow's date-only timestamp truncation.
Flow
Member
monday Work Management
User
1:1Flow Members map to monday.com Users. We resolve by email address match. Any Flow Member without a matching monday.com User is placed in a reconciliation queue for the customer to provision before record import resumes. Member name and email are preserved; Flow profile metadata beyond these fields is not available for transfer.
Flow
Due Date
monday Work Management
Date column
1:1Flow Due Dates on Tasks map to a monday.com Date column on the Board. The date value and any time-of-day context from Flow transfer as-is. We create the column with the name matching the Flow field label. If a Flow Task has no due date, the column is left blank on the corresponding Item.
Flow
Custom Field
monday Work Management
Column (typed)
lossyFlow Custom Fields are key-value pairs with no documented type metadata. We infer the monday.com column type from the value content: text strings map to Text columns, numeric values to Number columns, ISO date strings to Date columns, and delimited lists to Tags or Dropdown columns. Field types are inferred at migration time; we flag uncertain mappings in the validation report for the customer to verify post-migration. If a field contains heterogeneous values, we map it to a Text column as the conservative fallback.
Flow
Tag
monday Work Management
Tags column
1:1Flow Tags on Tasks map to the monday.com Tags column on the Board. Each tag name transfers as-is and attaches to the corresponding Item. Tags used for categorization in Flow become monday.com Tags; Tags used for cross-project classification map to a separate Tags column that the customer may rename during the post-migration review.
Flow
List
monday Work Management
Group or Tags column
lossyFlow Lists are groupings within a Project at the same hierarchy level as Tasks, with no parent-child relationship in Flow's flat model. We map each List to a monday.com Group within the Project's mapped Board, preserving the List name as the Group name and attaching all Tasks in that List to the Group. Alternatively, if the customer prefers a flat structure, Lists can map to a Tags column instead. The customer selects the strategy during scoping.
Flow
Subtask
monday Work Management
Subitem
1:1Flow Subtasks nest under parent Tasks. We map this hierarchy to monday.com Subitems if the destination account has Subitems enabled (Standard and above). Each Subitem inherits the parent Item's Board and Group. Subitem title, assignee, and due date transfer. If Subitems are not available on the destination plan, Subtasks become child Items linked via a parent Item column with a lookup relationship.
Flow
Attachment
monday Work Management
File upload (manual)
1:1Flow provides no programmatic path for bulk attachment export. We produce a full manifest of Items that have attachments, with the file name and download URL for each. The customer downloads files individually via browser and re-uploads them to the corresponding monday.com Item post-migration. We do not automate the download step. This manual effort is documented in the migration plan with a step-by-step checklist.
Flow
Time Tracking
monday Work Management
Time Tracking column
1:1If Flow contains time entry records associated with Tasks, we map them to monday.com's Time Tracking column on the Board. The time entry value and associated Task relationship transfer to the corresponding Item. This column is available on Pro and above. We confirm the destination plan includes Time Tracking before mapping and flag any plan tier gap in the scoping report.
Flow
Saved View
monday Work Management
Column filtering reference
1:1Flow Saved Views represent saved filtering and sorting states in the UI with no persistent data that can be extracted. We document the Saved View names, column filters, and sort order from the Flow workspace as a written reference. The customer's admin recreates these as column filters, grouping, and view presets in monday.com using the Board's built-in filtering. We do not migrate Saved Views as a data object.
| Flow | monday Work Management | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task | Item1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Project | Board or Group1:many | Fully supported | |
| Comment | Update1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Member | User1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Due Date | Date column1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Field | Column (typed)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Tag | Tags column1:1 | Fully supported | |
| List | Group or Tags columnlossy | Fully supported | |
| Subtask | Subitem1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Attachment | File upload (manual)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Time Tracking | Time Tracking column1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Saved View | Column filtering reference1:1 | Fully supported |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
Flow gotchas
No documented public API blocks automated migration
Platform closure requires urgent data preservation
Attachments require manual browser download
Comments have no timestamp precision guarantee
monday Work Management gotchas
Subitems have no bulk export endpoint
API complexity budget constrains query depth
Daily call limits vary sharply across plan tiers
Automation and integration rules do not export via API
Saved views are not exposed via API
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Confirm workspace access and run immediate data export
We verify active Flow workspace credentials at the start of engagement. Because Flow has no API and may be in a shutdown state, we run data extraction immediately upon credential confirmation. We export Comments and Attachments first since these are the most time-sensitive. We extract Tasks, Projects, Lists, Tags, Custom Fields, and Members in the same pass. If the workspace is already inaccessible, we assess whether any CSV exports were pre-downloaded by the customer and advise on next steps. Workspace access confirmation is a gating requirement before the migration plan is finalized.
Discovery, scoping, and hierarchy strategy decision
We analyze the exported Flow data across record counts, custom field cardinality, List and Tag volumes, Subtask nesting depth, and attachment count. We present the customer with a hierarchy strategy decision: map each Flow Project to a separate monday.com Board, or consolidate multiple Flow Projects into a single monday.com Board with Groups representing Projects. We also decide whether Flow Lists map to monday.com Groups or Tags. The discovery output is a written migration scope with object counts, hierarchy mapping strategy, custom field type inferences, and a timeline estimate.
Design monday.com Board structure and column schema
We design the monday.com destination schema based on the chosen hierarchy strategy. Each Flow Project becomes a Board (or a Group within a consolidated Board). Each Flow List becomes a Group. We pre-create columns for every Flow Custom Field with the inferred type (text, number, date, tag, dropdown). We set up assignee columns, due date columns, and any subitem-enabled columns for Subtasks. We deploy the Board structure to a monday.com sandbox or development workspace for the customer to review before production migration begins.
Sandbox migration and customer sign-off
We run a sandbox migration using a representative subset of Flow data, including tasks from each List, tasks with and without attachments, tasks with Subtasks, and tasks with varied custom field values. The customer reviews the mapped Items in monday.com, validates column types for custom fields, confirms Group names match expected Lists, and approves the hierarchy mapping. Any column type corrections, Group renaming, or structural changes happen here before production migration begins. Sandbox sign-off is a required milestone before we proceed to production.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: Board and Group structure first, then Tasks as Items, then Comments as Updates, with Member resolution by email at each phase. Subtasks migrate as Subitems or child Items with parent references. We resolve Flow Members to monday.com Users at import time, placing any unresolved Members in a reconciliation queue for the customer to provision. Custom field values import after column types are finalized in sandbox sign-off. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins.
Cutover, validation, and inventory handoff
We run a final delta migration for any records modified during the production migration window, then freeze the Flow workspace (if still accessible) and mark monday.com as the system of record. We deliver a post-migration validation report showing imported record counts per object, any unresolved Member references, and the manual attachment download checklist with item-level file references. We deliver the Flow Saved View reference document listing view names and filter criteria for the customer's admin to rebuild in monday.com. We provide a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues raised by the team.
Platform deep dives
Flow
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
monday Work Management
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Moderate Project Management migration. 1 of 8 objects need a manual workaround.
Overall complexity
Moderate migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Flow and monday Work Management.
Object compatibility
1 of 8 objects need a manual workaround.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
Flow: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Flow doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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