Why your monday.com dashboard numbers are wrong (mirror columns)
Mirror columns look like normal columns and behave nothing like them. Where they break reporting, and what to do instead.
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Dashboards and reporting
Dashboards that answer a specific question, instead of widgets nobody looks at twice.
A dashboard that shows everything answers nothing. The useful ones start from a question somebody actually asks out loud in a meeting.
This cluster covers how to structure boards so reporting is possible at all, the mirror and connect column behaviour that quietly breaks aggregation, and which widgets earn their space.
Articles
Templates
Formulaintermediate
The 12 monday.com formulas you actually need
Working formulas for date differences, business days, conditional totals and text cleanup, with the syntax gotchas that cost me hours.
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