The Scenario
A new call center manager has just finished a two-day onboarding for four regional teams. She has an Excel workbook with twelve calling lists — three per region — each with a list name and the team ID that should own it. GoDial needs all twelve lists created and assigned before any agents can start loading contacts. The GoDial UI creates one list at a time.
The bad version:
- Log into GoDial, navigate to Lists, click "Create New List", type the name from row 2, select the team from the dropdown (which requires finding the team by name, not ID), save.
- Repeat eleven more times, switching between the workbook and GoDial to copy each list name, picking the right team from the dropdown each time.
- Discover at list nine that the team dropdown shows team names but your workbook has team IDs — go back to GoDial's team settings to build a name-to-ID mapping, update your approach for the remaining three lists.
Twelve lists is already enough to feel the friction. If this were forty lists across eight regions, nobody would attempt it manually — they'd just put it off.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads every row of list names and team IDs, creates all twelve GoDial lists in sequence, and writes the returned list ID for each back into column C — giving you a permanent reference between your setup workbook and GoDial.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and paste this prompt:
Set up all 12 calling lists from my 'List Setup' Excel sheet, assigning each to the team ID in column B and writing the new list ID into column C
What You Get
- All twelve GoDial lists created, each named from column A and assigned to the team ID in column B.
- The GoDial-assigned list ID written into column C for each row — so you can reference the list IDs in future import prompts without going back to GoDial's UI.
- Any rows that fail written as an error in column C rather than silently skipped.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Column B has team names, not team IDs — GoDial requires IDs
First, fetch all GoDial teams and their IDs. Then for each row in this worksheet where column B is a team name, look up the matching team ID. Create a GoDial list with the name from column A assigned to the resolved team ID. Write the returned list ID into column C and the resolved team ID into column D.
Some lists already exist in GoDial and you only want to create the missing ones
Fetch the names of all existing GoDial lists. For each row in this worksheet, check if a list with the name in column A already exists. If it does, write the existing list ID into column C and skip creation. If it doesn't exist, create the list with the team ID from column B and write the new list ID into column C.
Lists need to be created with a default country code setting, not just a name and team
Create a GoDial contact list for each row in this worksheet — column A is the list name, column B is the team ID, column D is the country code (e.g. '+1'). Assign all three fields when creating each list. Write the returned list ID into column C.
Resolve team names, skip existing lists, apply country codes, and write back a full creation log in one pass
Fetch all GoDial teams to build a name-to-ID map. For each row in this worksheet: resolve the team name in column B to its GoDial team ID. Check if a list named column A already exists — if yes, write the existing ID to column C and skip. If no, create the list with the resolved team ID and country code from column D, write the new list ID to column C, and write "Created" to column E. Write "Skipped (exists)" or "Failed: [reason]" to column E for other outcomes.
One prompt. Twelve lists. No clicking through dropdowns.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook where you've laid out your GoDial list structure. Ask SheetXAI to create all the lists and write back the IDs — then you can immediately use those IDs to start importing contacts. See also bulk importing leads into GoDial or the full GoDial overview.