Why did done items vanish from my monday.com board?
The monday.com help pages give 3 common reasons. The first to rule out: An automation can archive items on its own once they are marked done.
Is it broken, or just quiet?
A number can fall because fewer people came, or because something stopped counting them. Below are the causes the monday.com help pages give, and how to check each one yourself.
What causes it?
An automation can archive items on its own once they are marked done.
In the monday.com help:
Once your tasks are marked as completed, you can automatically archive them with an automation..
What should I do with my "done" tasks?, read 2026-11-12.An automation can delete items on its own once they are marked done.
In the monday.com help:
Another option is once your tasks are marked as completed, you can automatically delete them by using an automation.
What should I do with my "done" tasks?, read 2026-11-12.Archived items cannot be used in dashboard widgets, so archived done items do not appear in those reports.
In the monday.com help:
Note: Archived items cannot be used on dashboard widgets for reporting purposes.
What should I do with my "done" tasks?, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
Look in the trash, which lists who deleted each item.
In the monday.com help:
Who deleted it.
The Recycle Bin, read 2026-11-12.Look in the trash soon, since a deleted item stays there for 30 days.
In the monday.com help:
When you delete a task, it will remain in your Trash section for 30 days.
What should I do with my "done" tasks?, read 2026-11-12.Look through the board's automations for one that archives or deletes items when their status changes to done.
In the monday.com help:
Set up the template so that when a status changes to "Done", the item is archived:
What should I do with my "done" tasks?, read 2026-11-12.
How does monday.com work with Feder?
- Connect monday.com to Feder and it joins your Wins apps.
- When you connect monday.com, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See whether you can trust the numbers in monday.com, one of your Wins apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in monday.com.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why did the count of done items drop on my monday.com dashboard?monday.com
- Why did my monday.com done count jump?monday.com
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
See every question.
Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the monday.com help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.