The Scenario
The internal auditor got a request from the compliance team on a Monday: pull 60 days of Timely account activity for the quarterly review. They need to see every logged-hour event, every report that was shared, every project change — timestamped, with the user who triggered it. The review is Thursday. She has never pulled an activity log from Timely before.
The bad version:
- Search for an activity log or audit trail in the Timely interface — find it, discover it's not directly exporworksheetle to a spreadsheet
- Try to copy the log entries manually, scrolling through pages of events
- Look for a CSV export, find one, download it, open it in Excel, and spend 20 minutes reformatting timestamps from UTC to local time and translating event type codes into readable labels
The compliance team is not asking for a summary — they need the raw log. Every minute spent on export mechanics is a minute not spent on the actual audit analysis.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your workbook and through its built-in Timely integration it can pull the full activity log directly into your workbook — timestamps, event types, users, and descriptions — without requiring any export mechanics.
Fetch all Timely account activities and write them into my Audit Log worksheet with columns for timestamp, event type, user, and description — filter to the last 60 days
What You Get
- One row per activity event, written into the Audit Log worksheet
- Columns: timestamp (ISO format), event type (time entry created, project updated, report shared, etc.), user name, event description
- 60 days of account history in one pull, ready for the compliance team to filter and review
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You need to filter to a specific event type
Pull all Timely account activities for the last 60 days and write them into my Audit Log worksheet — filter to only project change events and shared report events, with columns for timestamp, event type, user, and description
You need timestamps converted to a specific timezone
Fetch all Timely account activities for Q1 2025 and write them into my Audit Log worksheet — convert all UTC timestamps to US/Eastern time in column A, and include event type, user, and description
You need to flag entries made by users who are no longer in the HR system
Pull all Timely account activities for the last 60 days into my Audit Log worksheet — then look up each user name against my HR Export worksheet and flag any activity from a user not in the current employee list in column E
Full compliance-ready audit log in one pass
Pull all Timely account activities for Q1 2025 into my Audit Log worksheet with timestamp, event type, user, and description — convert timestamps to Eastern time, flag any activity from users not in my HR Export worksheet in column E, and add a summary at the top showing counts by event type
The pattern: pull the log, run the cross-reference, and flag the anomalies in one prompt so the audit sheet is ready for review without manual post-processing.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your compliance audit sheet, then ask it to pull the Timely activity log. For a user access audit specifically, see the spoke on exporting the Timely user list.