The Scenario
You are a product manager at a software company. Sprint planning is tomorrow at 2 PM. You need every open issue from the mobile-app repo in Bitbucket — all 80 of them — in an Excel workbook so the team can add story point estimates and priority decisions during the session.
Your usual approach is to open Bitbucket, filter to open issues, and copy what you see. Bitbucket shows twenty issues per page and has no export button. You are doing four pages of copy-paste, and the field columns come out in different positions on each paste.
The bad version of yesterday:
- You open Bitbucket issues for
mobile-app, filter to open - You copy page one: twenty rows, four fields
- You paste into the workbook, but the column order from the browser differs from your header row
- You fix the headers and start page two
- By page three the planning session has moved to 1:30 and you have 42 issues
- You go into the planning session with 42 rows instead of 80 and inconsistent formatting.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that pages through the full Bitbucket issue list and writes every row with consistent column ordering.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Get all open issues from Bitbucket repo 'mobile-app' in workspace 'acme-corp'. Write issue title, priority, assignee, created date, and issue kind into columns A through E of the Issues tab. Sort by priority ascending so highest priority issues appear first.
SheetXAI pages through all eighty open issues, applies the sort, and writes the complete table with consistent headers.
What You Get
A flat issue table ready for sprint planning:
- Title — the issue description
- Priority — critical, major, minor, or trivial
- Assignee — who owns it, or blank if unassigned
- Created date — formatted consistently
- Kind — bug, enhancement, proposal, or task
All eighty rows, not forty because the browser only showed two pages.
Want to add an empty "Points" column for the team to fill in during the session? Ask SheetXAI to add it at column F in the same prompt.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Real Bitbucket backlogs have messiness that shows up every time you try to export for planning.
When some issues have no assignee and need to be grouped for the meeting
You want unassigned issues first so they can be claimed at the start of the session.
Get all open issues from Bitbucket repo 'mobile-app' in workspace 'acme-corp'. Write title, priority, assignee, and created date in columns A through D of the Issues tab. In column E, write "Unassigned" if the assignee is blank and "Assigned" if not. Sort so unassigned issues appear first, then sort within each group by priority ascending.
When the team only wants bugs this sprint
Planning this week is bug-fix focused. Enhancements go to the backlog.
Get all open issues from Bitbucket repo 'mobile-app' in workspace 'acme-corp' where kind is 'bug'. Write title, priority, assignee, and created date in columns A through D of the Issues tab. Sort by priority ascending.
When you need to flag issues open longer than 60 days
The team wants to surface stale issues that should be closed or escalated.
Get all open issues from Bitbucket repo 'mobile-app' in workspace 'acme-corp'. Write title, priority, assignee, and created date in columns A through D of the Issues tab. In column E, write the days open. In column F, write "Stale" if the issue is more than 60 days old, otherwise leave it blank. Sort by days open descending.
When the planning workbook needs a priority summary alongside the full list
The engineering manager wants to know how many critical issues exist before the session begins.
Get all open issues from Bitbucket repo 'mobile-app' in workspace 'acme-corp'. Write the full issue list — title, priority, assignee, created date, kind — on the Issues tab in columns A through E. On the Summary tab, write each priority level and the count of open issues at that level.
The pattern: the planning export and the executive summary come from one prompt. You are not building the COUNTIF formulas after the fact.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to pull all open issues from any Bitbucket repo into a blank Excel workbook. The Bitbucket integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to export open pull requests for a sync in Excel or the Bitbucket in Excel overview.