This is the second catch-up post covering monday.com updates between 26 March and 10 April 2026. The focus in this window shifted towards administrative tooling, Enterprise-specific features, and a set of documentation refreshes on core parts of the platform. Less headline-grabbing than the Q1 feature releases, but these are the pieces that make a difference once an account is in daily use across a team. From next week onwards, the posts return to a weekly cadence covering whatever that week produced.
Admin and Enterprise refinements
Four updates in this area are worth flagging, particularly if you run monday.com as the platform owner or admin for a team.
The Administration section is the central hub where account admins manage security settings, user provisioning, billing, and account-level configuration. The updated documentation walks through the newer structure, which has consolidated settings that were previously spread across separate pages. If you have not visited the admin area in the last six months, the layout has changed and a quick audit of your current settings is worthwhile, particularly around SSO, session management, and guest access rules.
Managed templates is an Enterprise-only feature that lets admins create blessed board templates that users across the account can spin up from a central gallery. Every Enterprise account gets 20 managed templates by default, with more available on request. This solves a common problem at scale: when every team invents its own version of the same workflow, your account fragments into inconsistent shapes that are hard to report across. Managed templates give you a way to enforce a baseline structure while still letting teams customise within it.
Board permissions is foundational but has had its documentation refreshed with clearer guidance on the interplay between board-level, column-level, and item-level permissions. If you are setting up a CRM or HR board where different users need to see different subsets of data, this is essential reading. The short version: board permissions control who can view or edit a board, column permissions restrict who can see or change specific columns, and item permissions let you hide individual rows from certain users. Most permission complaints we see on monday.com implementations come from teams that did not set these up explicitly when the board was created, so revisiting permissions early pays off.
Resource management for Enterprise is a new Enterprise feature in monday work management that gives project managers a view of team capacity across projects. You see each person's allocated hours against their availability, with conflicts flagged where someone is booked beyond capacity. For teams running multiple simultaneous projects where the same specialists are pulled in across them (design leads, senior developers, PMs), this is the piece that has historically sent people to dedicated resource tools like Float or Runn. Having it in monday.com native removes a tool from the stack, though the depth of capability is something to test against your specific scheduling needs rather than assume.
For teams evaluating monday.com against enterprise platforms like Asana or Smartsheet, the combination of managed templates, board permissions, and resource management starts to address the "can it scale" question concretely. Our CRM design service includes permission architecture as part of the build, because the cost of retrofitting permissions on an account that has already been in use is usually much higher than getting them right at the start.
Views and widgets
Four updates refresh or document core views and widgets.
The Calendar Widget places a calendar view on any dashboard, pulling items from one or more boards and plotting them by date column. Useful for teams that want a "what is due this week" or "what meetings are scheduled" at-a-glance view without opening individual boards. The widget is configurable per dashboard, so you can scope it to just the boards a particular team cares about.
The favorites section is the short-list of boards pinned to the top of your left nav. Recently refreshed with faster pinning and a cleaner visual grouping. Worth knowing if your team has 50+ boards in the account: the difference between a user finding their three daily boards in one click versus navigating through a folder structure is significant for daily satisfaction with the tool.
The Dashboards is a refreshed overview of how dashboards work in monday.com, with the available widget catalogue and how widgets connect to board data. If you are building or restructuring executive or operational dashboards, the updated article is a good place to start, particularly the sections on cross-board widgets that aggregate data from multiple boards.
The Gantt Chart View and Widget is foundational for project management in monday.com, available on the work management product. The refresh covers newer features including dependency visualisation, critical path highlighting, and baseline comparisons. For teams coming from Microsoft Project or Asana Timeline, the gap between those tools and monday.com's Gantt has narrowed over the last year, but there are still specific capabilities (complex resource levelling, for example) where the dedicated tools go deeper.
Getting started: automations and integrations
Two documentation refreshes that are worth flagging for anyone onboarding onto monday.com.
Get started with monday automations covers the basics of the automation system: triggers, actions, and the rule library. If you have never built a monday.com automation before, this is the single best article to read first, and it has been updated to reflect the current automation builder including AI-powered rule suggestions and the expanded action library.
Get started with monday Integrations does the same for the native integration layer, explaining how connections to Gmail, Slack, Outlook, HubSpot, and others work inside monday.com. The distinction worth understanding: "integrations" in monday.com are native per-board connections configured through a standard interface. They are not the same as building a Make.com scenario or Zapier zap, which connect monday.com webhooks and API to arbitrary external tools. For straightforward two-way sync with a supported platform, native integrations are usually simpler and more reliable. For anything custom or multi-step, you still need Make.com or similar.
AI Feature Catalog and Updates
Two more to cover.
The AI Feature Catalog is the central index of every AI capability available across the monday.com product family. If you have been trying to work out exactly what AI features are turned on for your account, which plan tier they require, and how they relate to each other (Sidekick vs AI Blocks vs AI Workflows vs Agents), this catalogue is the authoritative reference. It is particularly useful when building a business case for a plan upgrade: you can point at the specific AI features that would unlock.
The Updates Section on items has had refreshed documentation covering how the conversation layer on items works. Each item has its own thread, supporting @mentions, file attachments, reactions, and email-to-update via a dedicated address. For teams using monday.com as a project communication tool rather than just a task tracker, this is the core layer that makes that work, and the updated guide is a good read for teams whose Updates discipline has lapsed.
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Explore CRM DesignWhat this means going forward
The shape of these updates points to where monday.com's product investment is sitting: making the platform viable at enterprise scale without losing the usability that wins it smaller deals. Managed templates, resource management, and refreshed permission guidance are all targeted at the friction points that show up once an account hits 50+ active users. If you are evaluating monday.com against Asana, Smartsheet, or ClickUp for a mid-market or enterprise rollout, these are the comparison points that matter most beyond the marketing page.
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