The Scenario
You are a release manager. You have an Excel workbook with 30 feature launch dates and labels from the past quarter on the Releases tab. Every chart in your Amplitude workspace should show these as annotations so the analytics team can see which spikes or drops correlate with which releases.
Right now, none of them do. Adding them one by one in Amplitude's annotation UI takes about two minutes each. That is an hour of clicking.
The slow version:
- Open Amplitude
- Click Add Annotation, fill in the date, fill in the label, save
- Repeat 30 times
- An hour later, the workspace is annotated. One quarter late.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI connects to Amplitude's annotation API and creates all 30 annotations from the Releases tab in one pass.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Read the release dates in column A and release names in column B of the Releases tab (rows 2–31) and create an Amplitude chart annotation for each one.
SheetXAI iterates through the 30 rows and creates all the annotations. Every chart in your workspace now shows the release history.
What You Get
30 Amplitude chart annotations, one per row:
- Date — pulled from column A of the Releases tab, formatted correctly for Amplitude
- Label — pulled from column B, written exactly as it appears in the workbook
The annotations are global across your workspace. Every chart that covers the annotated dates now shows the release label. The analytics team sees the spike on March 12 next to "v4.2 pricing page redesign" without having to ask you.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Release logs in workbooks are rarely in perfect annotation-ready shape. SheetXAI handles cleanup and the API calls in the same prompt.
When the date format in the workbook is inconsistent
Some rows have dates as MM/DD/YYYY, others as Month DD YYYY, and a few as Excel serial numbers.
Read release dates in column A and release names in column B of the Releases tab (rows 2–31). Normalize all dates to YYYY-MM-DD format before sending to Amplitude. Create an annotation for each row using the normalized date and the label from column B.
When some rows have blank or placeholder names
A few rows in column B say "TBD" or are empty because the feature shipped but was never properly named.
Read release dates in column A and release names in column B of the Releases tab (rows 2–31). Skip any row where column B is blank or contains "TBD". Create Amplitude chart annotations for the remaining rows. Write "SKIPPED" into column C for any excluded row.
When you want to annotate a specific chart rather than all charts
The workspace has dozens of charts, but this release log only applies to the revenue dashboard.
Create Amplitude annotations from the Releases tab using the date in column C and the description in column D. Apply the annotations only to the chart ID in cell F1. Write the returned annotation IDs back into column E.
When you need to create annotations, log the returned IDs, and flag failures all in one pass
You want a full record so you can audit or delete annotations later.
Read release dates in column A and release names in column B of the Releases tab (rows 2–31). Create an Amplitude chart annotation for each row. Write the returned annotation ID into column C. If any creation fails, write "FAILED — [error reason]" in column C for that row.
The pattern: instead of clicking through the Amplitude UI 30 times, you write the workbook once and create all the annotations in one prompt. Column C becomes your audit trail.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a release log, then ask it to bulk-create Amplitude chart annotations from the rows. The Amplitude integration is included in every plan. For related workflows, see how to pull event segmentation data for trend analysis or the Amplitude in Excel overview.