The Scenario
The engineering team shipped the feature three weeks ago. The PM finally has time to close the books on it. Sixty Productlane insights are tied to that feature — every customer who requested it over the past year. They all need to be moved to "closed" state now that the work is done.
The insight IDs are already in column A of an Excel workbook. There are 60 rows.
The bad version:
- Open Productlane, search for the first insight ID, find the state dropdown, change it to closed, and go back to the list.
- Repeat 59 more times.
- Realize after insight 20 that Productlane timed out your session and you have to re-authenticate and start the count again.
Nobody on the product team should be spending 45 minutes clicking through Productlane to close out a shipped feature.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads each row and calls the Productlane API to update the insight state, writing the result back into the workbook so you have a full confirmation record.
For each insight ID in column A of this Excel workbook, update the Productlane insight state to "closed" and write "updated" or the error into column B
What You Get
- Column B populated with "updated" for every successfully closed insight
- Any row where the insight ID is invalid or not found gets an error in column B
- A clean audit trail — filter column B for errors to handle just the exceptions
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want to update both state and pain level together
For each row in this workbook, update the Productlane insight whose ID is in column A: set state to column B and pain level to column C — write "updated" or the error into column D
Some rows have blank or malformed IDs in column A
Before updating, check column A for empty cells or non-numeric values — write "invalid ID" into column B for those rows and skip them — update state to "closed" for all valid IDs and write "updated" into column B
You only want to close insights that are currently open
For each insight ID in column A, update state to "closed" only if current state is "open" — for insights in any other state, write "skipped: [current state]" into column B
Full validation, state check, and bulk close in one pass
Check column A for valid IDs — skip blanks and malformed values — fetch the current state for each valid ID — close only the ones currently in "open" state and write "updated" or "skipped: [state]" into column B
The PM gets a full confirmation workbook without touching Productlane once.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the workbook of insight IDs from your latest ship, then ask it to bulk-close the Productlane records. Follow this with an export of your open insights to verify the closures landed correctly.