How General Caster works

Install the app, add an automation to a board and choose the formula and the column that receives the result.

General Caster calculates values on monday.com with formulas, the same kind you write in a spreadsheet, and writes the result into a column of your board.

Set it up

1. Install General Caster from the monday.com apps marketplace.
2. Open a board and choose Integrate. Search for General Caster and pick an automation, for example When a column changes, calculate a formula and set the result in a column.
3. Write the formula. Insert columns with the column button below the formula editor. Don’t type them by hand.
4. Choose the target column, the one that receives the result.

From then on, every time the trigger happens on an item, General Caster reads the item’s columns, calculates the formula and writes the result.

Good to know

• The target column can appear in the formula, for example a counter that adds 1 ({pulse.counter} + 1): General Caster recognises its own change and doesn’t calculate it again. Each time General Caster writes the column, monday runs the automation one more time; General Caster ignores that run, so it uses no credits, but monday still counts the extra call. Two recipes that keep changing each other’s columns are stopped after 20 runs in a minute on the same item.
• Each calculation that writes a value uses your plan’s monthly allowance.
• If something goes wrong, monday.com sends you a notification from General Caster explaining what happened. Use the formula debugger to see the value of every part of your formula.
• When the formula, the columns or the recipe have a mistake (an error in the result, a column that refuses the value or was deleted, a loop), General Caster also turns the automation off, so it doesn’t fail again at every change. Fix the cause, then turn the automation on again from the board’s automations. Temporary problems, like credits used up, don’t turn it off: the next runs go ahead once the cause is gone.