The Scenario
Client kickoff calls are Monday. You're the Jira admin at an agency and eight new client projects need to be live before the week starts. The workbook has everything ready: project name in column A, key in column B, lead email in column C, project type in column D. You have a kickoff deck to finish, portal access to set up, and exactly zero time to click through eight project creation forms.
The bad version:
- Open Jira, click Projects, hit Create Project.
- Fill in the name, type the key, set the lead, choose the template, click Create.
- Navigate back. Click Create Project again. Repeat seven more times.
- Realize after creating project 4 that you mistyped the project key — and Jira doesn't let you change it after creation.
Eight projects at five minutes each is forty minutes of form filling, plus whatever time it takes to deal with the mistyped key on project 4.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook. It reads the New Projects worksheet and through the Jira integration creates every project in one operation.
Create 8 Jira projects from my Excel sheet — column A is the project name, column B is the project key, column C is the lead account email — and note any failures in column D.
What You Get
- One Jira project created per row using name, key, and lead from the corresponding columns.
- Column D gets the created project ID for each success or an error message for any failure — duplicate key, invalid lead email, unsupported project type.
- All eight projects created before you close the workbook.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Column D also has the project type and you need to include it
Your workbook has four columns: name, key, lead, and project type.
For each row in my New Projects sheet, create a Jira project using the project name in column A, key in column B, lead email in column C, and project type in column D, then write the created project ID into column E.
Some projects were created manually yesterday as a test and already exist in Jira
The workbook still has all eight rows but four of the projects already exist.
For each row in my New Projects sheet, check whether a Jira project with the key in column B already exists. If it does, write 'already exists' in column D and skip. If not, create the project and write the new project ID into column D.
Two of the lead emails might not be valid Jira user accounts yet
New hires were supposed to be added to the instance this week but you're not sure if they are.
For each row in my New Projects sheet, verify that the email in column C corresponds to a valid Jira user account. If the user doesn't exist, write 'invalid lead email' in column D and skip. For valid users, create the project and write the project ID into column D.
Kill chain: validate keys and leads, create projects, and write a completion summary
For each row in my New Projects sheet, check that the project key in column B doesn't already exist in Jira and that the lead email in column C is a valid user. Skip invalid rows and note the reason in column D. Create valid projects and write the project ID into column D. In cell F1, write a summary: how many created, how many skipped, and how many errored.
Catching key conflicts and invalid leads before the creation step prevents the partial run where half your client projects are live and half aren't, and you can't tell which from looking at the workbook.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your agency's project setup Excel workbook before the next client onboarding batch, then ask it to create every project in the list and write the project IDs back. See also: how to bulk create Jira issues and how to add watchers to Jira issues in bulk.