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  • January 30, 2025
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We have an idea we’re calling the Miro Sandpit:

  • The concept involves creating a board with an activity for potential customers to engage with.
  • Customers would click a link (hosted on our website) that directs them to the board to complete the activity and explore Miro’s functionality before registering for one of our classes, which also uses Miro.

Here’s the key requirement:

  • We’d like the board to reset to its original state for each new user who accesses it, ensuring every visitor has a fresh activity experience.

Is there a way to configure Miro to do this automatically?

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Robert Johnson
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  • January 30, 2025

Hey, ​@EA Learning!

What you are suggesting is not currently possible as an out of the box feature.

If someone already had a Miro account, you could share a board link using the copyBoardId parameter (see details below), but you likely wouldn’t want to expect your customers would (or would want to go through the extra steps).

A few options:

 

Zapier

While I have not done this myself, I have heard of people using Zapier to create new boards based off of an existing board. So, in theory (and from my understanding of what they did and how Zapier likely works) is you could:

  1. Set up a Zapier Miro action to create a new board from your master template
  2. Trigger the action based upon another connection, e.g., a new record in a Google Sheet
  3. and that new record in a Google Sheet could be added by someone completing a Google Form.

Again, I have never done this myself, but recall something very similar being done by someone at the onset of the pandemic.

More on Zapier + Miro here: https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025942994-Zapier

And another link to check out: https://zapier.com/apps/google-sheets/integrations/miro/340488/create-miro-boards-from-new-spreadsheet-rows-in-google-sheets

 

Miro Developer Platform

You could also explore using Miro’s REST API to build your own process to create a board from a template: https://developers.miro.com/

 

Using the copyBoardId URL parameter

 

Warning: This should also not be considered “supported” functionality  in Miro – yes, it is how Miro currently works behind-the-scenes to create new boards from templates, but it is also subject to change.

 

 

Example board link → https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lCxo-es=/

  1. Looking at the board link above, the board ID is: o9J_lCxo-es=
  2. You would append it to this link: https://miro.com/app/?copyBoardId=
  3. For a final link of: https://miro.com/app/?copyBoardId=o9J_lCxo-es=

Anyone that clicks on that link would have the board be duplicated to their Miro account - one thing to note: If their Miro account profile is a member of more than one team, they may not be prompted as to which team space they would like the board to be duplicated, in which case it would be duplicated to the last team dashboard they were on.


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