Mural Zapier integrationAutomate Mural with Zapier.
The Mural Zapier integration gives you 4 triggers, 2 actions and 0 searches. Zapier can watch for new rooms, murals, areas and sticky notes in your Mural workspace, and it can create a mural or a sticky note for you. All four triggers are checked on a timer.
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What the Mural Zapier integration does for you
It connects Mural, the digital whiteboard where teams think things through visually, to your other tools through Zapier. A Zap is the automation you build there: one event that starts it, then one or more steps that run each time that event happens. With Mural, the event is a new board element, and the steps can add a mural or a sticky note.
A running log of every idea posted on a board. New Sticky picks up the sticky notes added to a chosen mural. Send each one to a spreadsheet and the ideas from a session end up in rows you can sort, without anyone copying them off the board.
Input from outside, straight onto the board. Put Create Sticky after the event of another app, a form entry for example, and each answer appears as a sticky note on the mural you picked. People who never open Mural still feed the board.
A heads-up when the workspace grows. New Mural and New Room can each post a message to your team chat, so new boards and rooms do not go unnoticed. New Area does the same for areas drawn inside a mural.
What Zapier does not do for Mural: no search, no way to edit, move or delete a sticky note or a mural, and no instant trigger, so every run waits for the next check. Six operations make up the catalog. To compare routes, see our Mural Make integration page.
Zapier words you will meet on this page
Seven terms, in plain words. Each one comes back further down without a second explanation.
- Zap
- The automation you set up on Zapier: one event that starts it, followed by the steps that run every time it happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it, here a new mural, room, area or sticky.
- Action
- What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something, such as creating a sticky note.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan's count is a count of those.
- Polling vs instant trigger
- Polling: Zapier checks the app on a timer. Instant: the app calls Zapier the moment the event happens. All four Mural triggers poll.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What a Mural Zap really costs
Mural is not reserved for paid plans: it works from the free plan. The trigger never costs a task, and Zapier checking Mural for new items costs nothing either, however often it looks.
- Trigger and checksNever billed
- Successful action1 task
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- MuralAvailable on the free plan
Each action that goes through counts as one task, whether it is Create Sticky, Create Mural or a step in another app; one that fails is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but each stops at two steps; a filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. All four Mural triggers are polling ones, so the grid below sets how often Zapier checks them on your plan.
Connect your Mural account to Zapier
- 01
Open the Apps page
In your Zapier account, go to Apps. A connection is your Mural account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step that uses Mural. You need a Mural account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.
- 02
Add the connection
Click + Add connection, type Mural in the search box of the dialog that appears and pick it from the results. Then click Add connection to start the link.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
A tab opens on Mural. Sign in with the account the Zap should work on, then grant Zapier access to it. From then on, all six operations can use this connection.
Your first Zap: a starter note on each new mural
GoalEach new mural in a chosen room whose details pass a filter gets a first sticky note, written once in the editor.
- 01
Build: pick the trigger
Create a Zap, choose Mural as the app and
New Muralas the event, then select your connection. Fill in Workspace and Room, both required, to name the room to follow. - 02
Test the trigger
Run the test: Zapier brings back the three most recent murals of the connected account, so you map the next steps on a real one. Check at test which details come back.
- 03
Add the filter
From the plus icon, add Filter and fill its three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, the value. This step makes the Zap multi-step, so it needs a paid plan.
- 04
Add the starter note
Add Mural with
Create Sticky. Keep the same Workspace and Room, map the new mural from the trigger into Mural, and type the note in the required Text field. - 05
Test, then publish
Run each step once and read what came back. When the note shows up on the new board as expected, click Publish to switch the Zap on.
The four Mural triggers
4 events start a Zap when something happens in Mural. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
New Area
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when new areas are created in your mural.”
Starts your Zap when someone draws a new area inside the mural you selected, and passes that area to the next steps so the structure of the board can be echoed elsewhere.
New Mural
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when new murals are created.”
Fires on each mural created in the room you chose, so whatever has to happen around a fresh board can start without anyone checking the room.
New Sticky
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when new stickies are created in your mural.”
Picks up each sticky note added to a chosen mural and hands its content to the following steps, so ideas posted on the board can travel to other tools.
New Room
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new room is created.”
Reacts to each room created in the workspace you picked, so a new room never slips by unnoticed and whatever should follow it can start on its own.
Create Mural.The two Mural actions
Mural gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Mural
ActionIn Zapier“Create a Mural”
Opens a new mural in the room you choose, with a title taken from an earlier step of the Zap or typed once in the editor.
Create Sticky
ActionIn Zapier“Create a Sticky note”
Adds a sticky note to a mural, with text built from what earlier steps of the Zap brought in.
When a Mural Zap breaks
Zapier links no help article to Mural, so the cases below are the general pitfalls of any Zap built on it.
Read these cases before you publish. If something still goes wrong after that, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
No catch-up on old boards
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Murals, rooms and stickies that already existed are not picked up; moving them is a separate job.A Zap that sets itself off
As a general precaution: a Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches can start itself again and again, and burn through your tasks.Bulk imports held back
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold the runs back.The same sticky never runs twice
On a polling trigger, Zapier keeps track of what it has already seen, so the same sticky note does not start the Zap a second time.
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