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Introduction
A The box scope is a defined collection of items from your monday.com boards makes up the box scope. Items are automatically synchronized. You can add main, shareable, and private boards to BigPicture boxes. Boards you that a scope owner can’t access (private or shareable) are not displayed in the search box.
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Scope type | Description |
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own scope | Add monday To configure the scope, add Monday boards to a box to configure the scope. You can add main, shareable, and private boards to BigPicture boxes. |
none (portfolio) | Portfolio boxes aggregate the contents of children nested within them. They don’t have their own scope |
sub-scope | Sub-scope boxes don’t have their own scope - they display a subsection of an own-scope parent box. |
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Element | Description |
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Board | Add monday boards to the scope of a box. |
Refresh board list | Can’t see a board on a list? Use the Refresh board list button. Boards that a scope owner can’t access (private or shareable) are not displayed in the search box. |
Scope Owner | A Box can contain only the items the Scope Owner can access (viewing access is sufficient). If you try to add items the Scope Owner doesn't have access to, you won't be able to save the scope successfully. |
Task types | You can select which elements are displayed as tasks and on the Gantt timeline and in the task tree. |
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You cannot save the scope when:
At least one monday.com board in the scope definition is incorrect or does NOT exist.
The total number of tasks is greater than the task limit set for boxesexceeds the box's task limit.
monday.com folders
You can use monday.com folders to update the scope.
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To add a folder to a scope, click the Search icon in the folder line and choose folders:
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When a folder is added, all boards within it and its sub-folders are included in the scope. Moving a board to a folder within the scope automatically includes it in the scope, eliminating the need for manual addition in the settings.
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Remember to verify column mapping. The boards from the folder are automatically added to a box, but column mapping needs to be manually adjusted if needed. |
Update scope
When you update the scope and add more boards to the box's scope of , the box, a current box’s scope owner must have access to all of them. Otherwise, you can’t save the changes.
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