One Excel workbook per project, kept in step with the board both ways
Four Make scenarios tie a monday.com pipeline to an Excel workbook per project in SharePoint. A stage change creates the project's folder, copies in its templates and registers the workbook; edits on the board are written to the right cells; edits in the workbook come back to the board; and at report stage, AI web search fills in local utility rates.
Where this applies
Audit, survey and engineering firms that run projects on monday.com but do their numbers in an Excel workbook per project.
- projects mapped to their workbooks
- 667
- workbook-to-board runs, no errors
- 1,000
- kinds of column routed to cells
- 4
The problem
A water-efficiency audit is delivered as numbers: fixture counts, flow rates, savings and the local price of water. Analysts work in an Excel workbook per project because the calculations live there, while the office runs the pipeline in monday.com, and each side holds fields the other needs.
Copying between them by hand leaves one side out of date. A generic spreadsheet sync doesn't fit either: each project has its own workbook in its own folder, created from templates, and each column on the board belongs in a particular cell, not in a new row.
What we built
Folder and map, created together
When a deal reaches the right pipeline stage, a scenario creates the project's SharePoint folder, pauses so the folder exists before anything is written to it, and copies in three templates: the calibration-audit file, with content generated by Gemini, the project workbook and a third working file. It writes the links back to the board, seeds the workbook with a worksheet and a first row, and records which workbook belongs to which project in a data store.
Board to workbook, column by column
When a column changes on the board, a second scenario finds the item's workbook and row in the data store, and a router sends the change down one of four routes by kind of column: numbers, linked records, dates or statuses. Each route writes the value into its cell, and every Excel write has a Skip or Ignore handler, so one locked workbook doesn't stop the next change.
Workbook back to board
About every twenty minutes a third scenario reads the workbooks' rows through SharePoint's API, finds each matching monday item by column value and writes back the rows that pass its filter, so calculations done in Excel reach the pipeline without anyone retyping them. Its Excel and monday branches fail soft as well.
Utility rates by AI web search
When a property moves to report preparation, a fourth scenario pulls its files from SharePoint, asks Make's AI web search for the local water and utility rates, writes them into the workbook, sets the item's status and emails the team to say it is done. Its modules are named in business language, so the scenario reads as the job it does.
The outcome
The workbook-to-board sync ran 1,000 times between 6 and 21 October 2026, every run successful.
The folder scenario sets up a project in about sixteen operations and thirty-three seconds, and ran on six days in the 30 days to 21 October.
The data store mapped 667 projects to their workbooks on 21 October.
The utility-rate scenario has run 37 times, all between 23 and 26 September 2026; eight of those runs failed while it was being built and tested.
Where it stops
A workbook edit reaches the board on the next poll, about twenty minutes later, not instantly. A project whose workbook was never registered in the data store is not synced from the board. Utility rates found by web search are written as found and need checking before a report goes out, and that scenario has not run since its first week. Website form intake, portal logins and earlier versions of the workbook sync run in the same account and are not described.
Built with
- Make.com
- monday.com
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft 365 Excel
- Microsoft 365 Email
- Google Gemini
- Make AI Web Search
- Make data store
Patterns used
- Lookup table in a data store
- Route by column type
- Wait for the folder
- AI research into a cell
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