Set up a box

Use monday.com boards

Connect monday.com boards

Open

Start working with BigPicture and connect your monday boards to see your projects in the app.

1. Click Connect monday.com boards.

Open

2. Select monday boards to create box(es) and type a box name. If you can’t find a board you want, click the Refresh board list button.

3. Click Connect button.

Create a box

To create a new box:

1. Click the +Add new button.

2. Choose a box type and complete a box name.

3. Start and end dates are automatically set to today. You can edit start/end dates now or later.

4. Add monday boards to populate the scope of a box.

5. Adjust the icon and its color for a box (box scope configuration can be modified at any later point).

6. Click Create.

Configure scope definition

This screen allows you to add/remove boards from a box scope. In the Advanced configuration, you can decide whether you want your boards and groups visualized on the Gantt timeline as tasks.

Steps:

1. Use the Configure Scope button in the message to access scope configuration OR
   
   

2. Go to a box (click on its name)

   1. From the module switcher, select Configuration

   2. On the left go to Tasks > Scope definition

Configure task structure

Task structure settings automatically arrange your tasks into a task tree.

Read more in the Task structure article.

Steps:

1. Use the Configure Scope button in the message to access scope configuration OR
   
   

2. In Box Configuration, go to Tasks > Task structure

Baselines

To assess your project's performance over time, you can set Baselines and track deviations from your initial schedule.

Configure column mapping

Column mapping lets BigPicture know where data can be found in board columns, regardless of the column name. This lets you work with all items in a single BigPicture box, even if your monday boards don't have an identical column setup.

See more on the Column mapping page.