The Scenario
The client invoice is due end of week. Your project manager needs every worklog for the 25 issues in project CONSULT for the past sprint in an Excel workbook: issue key, author, hours logged, and date. The client's accounts payable team cross-references this against their own records before releasing payment.
The bad version:
- Open Jira. Navigate to the first issue key. Click the worklog section. Note the author, hours, and date. Switch to Excel and type them in.
- Navigate back to Jira. Find the next issue key. Repeat.
- Realize at issue 14 that one ticket had three separate worklog entries from different days and you only captured the first one.
Twenty-five issues with an average of two log entries each is fifty rows of transcription. The client is comparing your numbers to their system. One misread entry and the reconciliation call takes longer than building the sheet did.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook and through the Jira integration fetches every worklog entry for every issue key in one pass.
Pull all worklogs for Jira project CONSULT from the past 2 weeks and write issue key, author name, hours logged, and work date into my Excel sheet.
What You Get
- One row per worklog entry — if an issue has three log entries it gets three rows.
- Issue key, author display name, hours (converted from Jira's seconds), and work date in separate columns.
- Issues with no worklogs produce no rows rather than empty placeholders.
- The result is ready to pivot or sum for the invoice.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You have the issue keys already and want to pull worklogs for that specific set
The project manager's list has 25 specific keys in column A, not the full project.
For each issue key in column A of my Timesheet sheet, fetch all worklogs from Jira and write the author, time spent in hours, and log date into columns B, C, D.
The client needs email addresses, not Jira display names
Their accounts payable team matches invoices against their contractor database by email address.
For each issue key in column A of my Timesheet sheet, fetch all worklogs from Jira. Write the author's email address, time spent in hours, and log date into columns B, C, D.
Two team members are contractors whose hours go on a separate invoice
Their entries should land on a second worksheet, not mixed into the main timesheet.
Fetch all worklogs for the issue keys in column A of my Timesheet sheet. Write entries from internal team members into the current sheet. Write entries from contractor emails into a new worksheet called Contractor Hours.
Kill chain: fetch worklogs, flag over-8h days, and add per-person subtotals
For each issue key in column A of my Timesheet sheet, fetch all Jira worklogs. Write issue key, author email, hours, and date into the sheet. Flag any entry where a single person logs more than 8 hours on the same date with 'Review' in a flag column. Below the last data row, add one subtotal row per author showing their total hours.
The flag logic and the subtotals land in the same pass — no post-processing before the invoice goes out.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open an Excel workbook with your Jira issue keys in column A, then ask it to pull every worklog entry and write author, hours, and date into rows ready for reconciliation. See also: how to build a full billing-period timesheet from Jira worklogs and how to export open bugs for triage.