Project Management migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Swit and monday Work Management. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in monday Work Management.
Swit
Source
monday Work Management
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 12
objects map 1:1 between Swit and monday Work Management.
Complexity
CModerate
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Moving from Swit to monday.com is primarily a structural consolidation. Swit organizes work around Task cards inside Projects, with custom fields scoped per-project and statuses that each team configures independently. monday.com uses boards with items as rows and columns as fields, where each board has its own schema independent of other boards. This aligns naturally with Swit's per-project field model but requires a per-board discovery pass during scoping. We extract task hierarchies (parent tasks and subtasks), priority levels, checklist items, and time-tracking data from Swit and map them to monday.com items, subitems, status columns, and the Workload view. Swit's task-to-chat linking from the Hub plan does not have a direct monday.com equivalent; we document the linking pattern so the customer's admin can rebuild it using monday.com Automations. We do not migrate automations, integrations, or dashboards as code — these are documented in a written inventory for the customer's team to rebuild.
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.
Why teams make this switch
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What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Swit 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.
Swit
Project
monday Work Management
Board
1:1Each Swit Project maps to a monday.com Board. We preserve the project name as the board name and replicate the project-level dashboard context by configuring the monday.com board's Views (Workload, Timeline, or Calendar) at migration time. If the Swit project has unique custom fields, those become columns in the monday.com board. The board's Group structure is derived from the project's initial status layout.
Swit
Task
monday Work Management
Item
1:1Swit Task cards map directly to monday.com Items. Standard fields migrate as follows: Task name becomes Item name, description becomes the Update or Text column, priority becomes a monday.com Priority column (Low/Medium/High/Urgent), and due date becomes the Date column. Multiple assignees map to the Person column with multi-user support. Task status maps to the Status column by matching the Swit status label to the nearest monday.com group label.
Swit
Subtask
monday Work Management
Subitem
1:1Swit subtasks map to monday.com Subitems attached to their parent Item. We reconstruct the parent-child hierarchy by resolving the parent task reference during migration and creating the subitem relationship via monday.com's subitem API. Each subitem inherits the availability of the same column types as a standard item. Subtask completion status and individual assignees are preserved.
Swit
Checklist
monday Work Management
Subitem (checklist mode) or Text column
1:manySwit checklist items within a task card are extracted as discrete records with a checked or unchecked boolean state. We map these to monday.com Subitems with a Checkbox column where each subitem represents one checklist line. If the customer prefers a flat structure, we map checklist items to a Text column with checkbox Unicode characters preserved. The mapping approach is confirmed during scoping.
Swit
Assignee (multi-assign)
monday Work Management
Person column (multi-person)
1:1Swit tasks and subtasks support multiple assignees stored as a many-to-many relationship. We map each assignee by email to a monday.com User account and populate the Person column with all resolved users. Any assignee with no matching monday.com User goes to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before the migration phase for that project begins.
Swit
Priority
monday Work Management
Priority column
1:1Swit priority values (Low, Medium, High, or any custom label) map directly to monday.com's Priority column labels. We extract the actual priority label set from the source account rather than assuming a standard set, and configure the monday.com Priority column labels to match exactly. Custom priority labels are preserved as written.
Swit
Task Status
monday Work Management
Status column (Groups)
lossySwit's team-configurable status values require a value transformation at migration time. We extract the full set of status labels from each Swit project and map them to monday.com Status column group labels. If the destination board has fewer groups than the source statuses, we consolidate related statuses into a single group and flag the consolidation for customer review. This is one of the highest-effort mappings for multi-project migrations.
Swit
Comment
monday Work Management
Update
1:1Swit task comments migrate to monday.com Updates on the corresponding Item. We preserve the full comment text, author (mapped by email to monday.com User), and original timestamp. Threading structure in Swit is flattened into a chronological sequence of Updates on the monday.com item because monday.com does not support threaded replies on updates in the same way.
Swit
Attachment
monday Work Management
File column
1:1We export Swit attachment metadata (filename, size, type, URL). File content retrieval depends on whether Swit's storage is accessible via export; we flag any attachments where the file body could not be retrieved. These are presented to the customer as items requiring re-upload in monday.com. monday.com's File column stores file references; actual file upload happens via monday.com's upload API during migration.
Swit
Tag
monday Work Management
Tag or Label column
1:1Swit Tags migrate to monday.com Tags applied to Items. If the customer uses tags for cross-project categorization, we map them to monday.com Tags which are board-scoped. Tag color labels are preserved where the source exposes them.
Swit
Time Entry
monday Work Management
Number column (Workload view input)
1:1Swit task-level time-tracking records (hours logged per task per user) migrate to monday.com Number columns as logged duration values. The monday.com Workload view consumes these values for resource planning. If the customer requires a native time-tracking integration post-migration, we recommend a monday.com-native or Zapier-routed time-tracking app, as monday.com does not include built-in task-level time tracking at all tiers.
Swit
Custom Field (per-project)
monday Work Management
Column (per-board)
lossyThis is the highest-complexity mapping in a Swit to monday.com migration. Swit applies custom fields per-project; a customer with 15 projects may have 15 different custom field schemas. We enumerate each project's field set individually during discovery, map each Swit field type (text, number, date, choice, multi-choice, user) to the nearest monday.com column type (Text, Numbers, Date, Dropdown, Multi-select, Person), and configure the destination columns per-board. Choice field options map to monday.com Status column labels or Dropdown column options.
| Swit | monday Work Management | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project | Board1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Task | Item1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Subtask | Subitem1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Checklist | Subitem (checklist mode) or Text column1:many | Fully supported | |
| Assignee (multi-assign) | Person column (multi-person)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Priority | Priority column1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Task Status | Status column (Groups)lossy | Mapping required | |
| Comment | Update1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Attachment | File column1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Tag | Tag or Label column1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Time Entry | Number column (Workload view input)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Field (per-project) | Column (per-board)lossy | 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.
Swit gotchas
Custom field schema varies per project
Task status values are team-configurable
Hub plan required for task-chat linking
Attachment content retrieval may require re-upload
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
Discovery and project enumeration
We audit the source Swit account across all workspaces and projects. For each project, we enumerate the full task list, custom field definitions, status label sets, subtask depth, checklist counts, attachment volumes, time-tracking records, and tag taxonomy. We also identify which Swit plan the account is on (Starter, Hub, or Advanced) to determine whether task-to-chat links exist in the source data. The discovery output is a written project-by-project migration matrix with object counts, field counts per project, and any data that cannot migrate (flagged for customer acknowledgment).
monday.com workspace and board setup
We create the monday.com workspace and configure boards corresponding to each Swit project. For each board, we build the column schema by mapping Swit's standard fields (name, description, priority, due date, assignees) and the per-project custom fields to monday.com column types. Status column groups are configured to match the Swit status label set as closely as possible, with consolidation documented where the source has more stages than the destination. The board structure is validated in a monday.com test workspace before migration data is loaded.
User reconciliation and assignee mapping
We extract every distinct user referenced in Swit as a task assignee, comment author, or time-tracking user. Each user is matched by email to a monday.com User account. Users without a matching monday.com account are placed in a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before record import. Migration cannot proceed past assignee resolution because monday.com's Person column requires a valid User reference.
Migration in dependency order
We run migration in record-dependency order: Tags (imported first to ensure they exist before Items), Items (Swit Tasks with parent references stored for subitem creation), Subitems (Swit Subtasks created via the monday.com subitem API with parent reference resolved), then Checklists (mapped to Subitems or Text column depending on the customer's chosen approach). Priority values, due dates, and status transitions are applied during Item creation. Comments are appended to Items as Updates after the Item record exists. Time-tracking data is loaded into Number columns after Items are in place.
Custom field per-project migration pass
After all standard fields are migrated, we run a custom field pass per project. For each project, we apply the project-specific column values to the corresponding monday.com board. This is a per-project loop rather than a bulk operation because each board has a different column schema. We emit a per-project completion report showing the number of Items updated with custom field data and any records where a custom field value could not be applied due to missing column configuration.
Attachment re-upload checklist delivery
We generate a structured re-upload checklist organized by Item and board, containing filename, original Swit URL (where accessible), and file size. This checklist is delivered as a CSV and is used by the customer or their team to re-upload files via monday.com's interface or file API. We perform API-based file uploads for any attachments where Swit's export exposes direct file content, subject to API rate limits and authentication scope.
Cutover, validation, and automation inventory delivery
We freeze writes in Swit during the cutover window, run a final delta pass for any records modified during migration, then hand off monday.com as the system of record. We deliver a written inventory of Swit automations (task-chat linking patterns, any workflow rules visible in Swit), integrations, and dashboards that require rebuild in monday.com. We do not rebuild these as part of migration scope. We support a five-business-day hypercare window for reconciliation issues raised by the customer's team.
Platform deep dives
Swit
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
monday Work Management
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Moderate Project Management migration. 5 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Moderate migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Swit and monday Work Management.
Object compatibility
5 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
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
Swit: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Swit 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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