The Scenario
The program manager inherited an Excel workbook from someone who left last month. It has 40 rows — each one a Fibery entity ID in column A and a new status value in column B. The outgoing PM had been tracking which projects needed status changes after a restructure, planned to push the updates into Fibery herself, and never got to it. Now that job belongs to someone who has never touched Fibery's API and has a board review in two hours.
The bad version:
- Copy the first entity ID from column A. Open Fibery. Use the search bar to find the entity. Click into it. Open the status field. Set the new value. Save. Go back to the workbook. Copy the next ID.
- After twelve entities, realize the Fibery search returns too many results for short entity IDs and you have to navigate through the URL instead. Adjust the workflow. Keep going.
- Hit entity 28 and realize the status value in column B says "On Hold" but Fibery's 'Projects/Project' type uses "Paused." Stop to figure out whether these are the same thing. Decide they probably are. Update them all manually anyway because there's no safe way to do a find-replace on a field you didn't build.
Forty entities. At three minutes each, that's two hours. The board review is in two hours. This person did not sign up to spend their morning on data entry.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook, understands the data, and through its built-in Fibery integration it can push field updates back into Fibery for you — matching entity IDs from the workbook to the right records and setting new values in a single pass.
Read entity UUID from column A and new status from column B in my workbook — update each Fibery entity in the 'Projects/Project' type with the new status value, mapping 'On Hold' to Fibery's 'Paused' status
What You Get
- All 40 entities updated in Fibery without opening the UI once.
- Status vocabulary mapped from the workbook's labels to Fibery's field options as part of the same operation.
- Any entity IDs that don't match a record in the 'Projects/Project' type are flagged in column C — not silently ignored.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some rows have blank status values and should be skipped
Read entity UUID from column A and new status from column B — skip any row where column B is blank — and update each matching Fibery 'Projects/Project' entity with the new status
You also need to update a due date column alongside the status
Read entity UUID from column A, new status from column B, and revised due date from column C — update each Fibery 'Projects/Project' entity with both the new status and the new due date in one pass
The entity IDs are in a different format than Fibery expects
Read entity IDs from column A — strip any leading 'PROJ-' prefix — then update each Fibery 'Projects/Project' entity's status field using the value in column B
Full normalize, validate, and update in one shot
Read column A (entity UUID) and column B (new status) from all rows where column D is marked 'Ready' — normalize status values from 'On Hold' to 'Paused' and 'In Flight' to 'In Progress' — update each Fibery 'Projects/Project' entity, and write 'Updated' or the error message into column E
One prompt handles the conditional filter, the value normalization, and the Fibery updates. Column E tells you what happened to each row.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook that holds a list of Fibery entity IDs and field values you need to push back in, then ask it to run the update. For related tasks, see how to bulk-import new entities into Fibery or export entity data back to a workbook for review.