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The short answer

In Asana, one task can live in multiple projects at once (“multi-homing”): update it anywhere and it updates everywhere, and every team sorts it inside their own project. monday.com has no native equivalent — an item belongs to exactly one board. Teams migrating from Asana get the same behavior by installing Same Item Multiple Boards, which lets one monday item live on multiple boards with everything in sync.

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Why the native monday options don’t replicate multi-homing

  • Connect Boards + Mirror columns show a few fields from another board, but the mirrored values are read-only references — you can’t build views, automations, or forms on them the way Asana lets you work with a multi-homed task (details).
  • “Create item in another board” automations make a copy. In Asana terms, that’s duplicating the task into the second project — the two copies immediately drift apart.
What made multi-homing work in Asana is that it was one task. The monday equivalent has to be one item, which is exactly what a sync app provides.

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Setting it up after migration

  1. Install Same Item Multiple Boards (install guide).
  2. Recreate your multi-homed structure: share each cross-team item to the boards that need it — manually for a handful, in bulk for many.
  3. Mirror your Asana rules with automations: “when item is created / status changes, share to board X”.
  4. Column names and types should match across boards — column mapping previews and fixes this in one click.

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FAQ

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Does each board see its own view of the item, like Asana sections?

Yes. The item is the same everywhere, but each board keeps its own groups, views, and extra columns. A task can sit in “This week” on your team board and “Client review” on the client board.

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Do comments carry over like Asana’s?

Yes — updates and replies are one shared thread across every board the item lives on (how updates sync works).

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Is there a limit to how many boards an item can live on?

Plans are sized by shared items and boards — see pricing and usage limits. There’s a free plan and a free trial to test your migration before committing.