The Scenario
The quality review wrapped up an hour ago. You and your team spent the morning going through 20 deliverables and confirmed every one of them complete. The task IDs are already in your Excel workbook — project ID in column A, task ID in column B — because you set that up when you created the tasks two weeks ago. Now you just need TickTick to reflect the reality.
You consider marking them done one at a time. You open TickTick. You search for the first task ID.
The bad version:
- TickTick's search returns the task eventually, you click the checkbox, the task disappears from view, and you go back to the workbook to find the next ID.
- By task eight you've misread a task ID and marked the wrong task complete — similar alphanumeric strings, one transposition error.
- At task 15 you switch to a different project view to find the task faster and accidentally lose your place in the workbook.
Twenty tasks. Twenty round-trips between TickTick and the workbook. Forty-five minutes for a mechanical operation that could be described in one sentence.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the project and task IDs from your columns and marks every task complete in TickTick in a single operation — writing confirmation back into the workbook so you have an audit record.
Mark each TickTick task as complete using the project ID from column A and task ID from column B in the 'Completed Tasks' worksheet, then write 'Completed' into column C for each success.
What You Get
- All 20 tasks in the workbook are marked complete in TickTick.
- Column C receives 'Completed' for each task that was successfully updated.
- If a task ID in column B doesn't exist or has already been completed, column C receives an error note for that row.
- Tasks not in the workbook are unaffected — the operation is scoped exactly to what's listed.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some tasks were already marked complete in TickTick
A few team members marked things done earlier in the day, and you don't want errors cluttering column C.
For each row in the 'Completed Tasks' worksheet, attempt to mark the TickTick task in column B (project ID from column A) as complete. If the task is already complete, write 'Already done' in column C. If it succeeds, write 'Completed'. If it errors for another reason, write 'ERROR: [reason]'.
You want a timestamp of when each task was completed
Your compliance team needs to know exactly when tasks were closed.
Mark each TickTick task as complete using project ID from column A and task ID from column B. Write 'Completed' and today's date and time into column C for each success.
Tasks span multiple worksheets and need to be combined first
The QA checklist was split into two tabs — 'Batch A' and 'Batch B' — and you want to complete all of them.
Mark all TickTick tasks in the 'Batch A' worksheet as complete (project ID in column A, task ID in column B, write result in column C), then do the same for the 'Batch B' worksheet.
Full kill chain: validate IDs, complete tasks, and flag results in one shot
Check the 'Completed Tasks' worksheet for rows missing a project ID in column A or a task ID in column B and write 'MISSING ID' in column C for those rows. For all valid rows, mark the corresponding TickTick task as complete and write 'Completed [timestamp]' into column C. For any failure, write 'ERROR: [reason]'.
One pass, one result column — no second sweep to figure out what happened to which row.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any workbook where you've been tracking task IDs from a QA review or delivery checklist, then ask it to complete all of them in TickTick at once. Also useful: bulk-updating due dates and priorities after a re-plan or bulk-deleting stale tasks from a cleanup list — or go back to the TickTick integration hub.