The Scenario
An engineering program manager runs six active Linear projects. Every Monday, they write a status update for each one in an Excel workbook — short paragraphs reviewed by the head of engineering before being posted. The workbook is ready. The posting is the annoying part: six Linear projects, six update boxes, six pastes.
The bad version:
- Open Linear, navigate to the first project, find the "Project Updates" section, click "Post update," paste the text from the workbook, set the status, post.
- Navigate back to the project list. Find the second project. Repeat.
- Six projects takes about 15 minutes of navigation and pasting. The writing took 25 minutes. The posting should take 30 seconds.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads each row of update content and posts it to the corresponding Linear project — all six at once.
Post a Linear project update for each row in this workbook using the project ID in column A and the update text in column B
What You Get
- Six project updates posted in Linear, each with the text from your workbook.
- Updates appear in each project's feed immediately.
- Project IDs that don't match any workspace project surface as errors.
- A confirmation with the count of updates posted.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Use project names instead of IDs
Create a status update post in Linear for every project listed by name in column A using the update body in column B — look up each project by name to find its ID
Include a health status per update
Post a project update for each row: use column A as the project name, column B as the update text, and column C as the health status (on-track, at-risk, or off-track)
Skip rows still in draft
For each row in this workbook where column D says "ready": post a Linear project update using column A as the project name, column B as the update text, and column C as the status
Full weekly run with confirmation logging
For each row in this workbook where column D says "ready": post a Linear project update using column A as the project name and column B as the update text — write the posted timestamp into column E and "posted" or the error message into column F
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook where you draft Linear project updates — then ask it to post all of them at once. If you also need a snapshot of current issue counts per project for the updates, the cross-project summary guide shows how to pull that data first.