The Scenario
A QA lead just finished a testing pass on 22 issues. For each one, they wrote a short note in an Excel workbook — what they tested, whether it passed, any edge cases. Those notes need to be posted as comments on the corresponding Linear tickets so engineers have the QA feedback in context. Opening 22 tickets individually is not the plan.
The bad version:
- Open the first Linear issue from the workbook, scroll to comments, click "Add comment," paste the note from the workbook, post.
- Switch back to the workbook. Find the next identifier. Navigate to Linear. Search. Open. Paste. Post.
- Twenty-two tickets. By ticket 14 you've pasted the comment from the wrong row because you lost your place.
The QA process exists to catch errors. The feedback workflow shouldn't introduce new ones.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads each issue identifier and comment text and posts them all to Linear at once.
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SheetXAI installs in your Excel workbook in about a minute. Paste the prompt below and watch it run.
Post a comment on each Linear issue identifier in column A using the text in column B
What You Get
- 22 comments posted — one per issue, with the exact text from column B.
- Comments appear immediately in each issue's activity feed.
- Identifiers that don't exist surface as errors rather than silent skips.
- A confirmation summary with the count posted and any failures.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Only post where column C says "QA passed"
Add a comment to every Linear issue in this workbook where column C says "QA passed", using the note in column D as the comment body
Prefix each comment consistently
For each row in this workbook: post a comment on the Linear issue in column A formatted as "QA Review: [text from column B]"
Add a label alongside the comment
For each row where column C says "QA passed": post a comment on the Linear issue in column A using the text in column D, and also add the label "qa-passed" to that issue
Full QA handoff in one shot
For each row where column C says "QA passed": post a comment on the Linear issue in column A using column D as the comment body, add the label "qa-passed", and update the issue state to "Ready for Release" — write "done" or the error into column E
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with QA notes alongside Linear issue identifiers — then ask it to post all the comments at once. If you need to export the issues first to build the QA workbook, the export-issues guide shows how to pull them.