The Scenario
You are a QA lead. The sprint review just ended and the team agreed on which bugs move forward and where.
Your Google Sheet has 30 rows: column A is the Basecamp card ID, column B is the destination column ID after the review decision. Every card needs to move.
The bad version of this afternoon:
- You open Basecamp, navigate to the card table, find the first card
- You drag it to the new column, or open it and change the column from the card settings
- You do it for card 2
- You do it for card 3
- On card 12 you open the wrong card because the titles are similar and move it to the wrong column
- You undo, redo, recheck the sheet
- You are on card 22 when the next meeting starts.
The fast version is one prompt before you open the meeting.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that reads the card-and-column pairs and moves every card in Basecamp, without you touching the card table UI.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Move each Basecamp card: column A of my sheet is the card ID, column B is the destination column ID. Process all 30 rows.
SheetXAI reads every row, calls Basecamp's API to move each card to the specified column, and writes confirmation back to column C. All 30 cards moved in the time it would have taken you to move five by hand.
What You Get
30 Basecamp cards moved to their post-sprint-review columns:
- Each card moved to the correct column — driven by the column IDs in column B
- Confirmation written to column C — "moved" or "failed" for each row, so you can see at a glance if anything needs attention
- Zero UI clicking — the card table reflects the sprint review decisions without you dragging a single card
If anything failed, column C tells you which rows and why. Fix the row and re-run for just those records.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Sprint review sheets from JIRA exports or shared notes are never quite clean.
When column IDs are missing for some cards
A few rows in column B are blank because those cards are still under discussion.
Move all Basecamp cards where column B is not blank: use column A as the card ID and column B as the destination column ID. For rows where column B is blank, write "skipped — no destination" to column C. Write "moved" or "failed" to column C for processed rows.
When you want to preview the moves before committing
You want to see a summary of which cards are moving where before anything actually changes in Basecamp.
Read the card IDs in column A and column IDs in column B. Without moving any cards yet, write a preview to column D: fetch the current card title for each card ID in column A and the column name for each column ID in column B. I will review the preview before confirming.
When some card IDs in the sheet are outdated
A few cards were archived or deleted between the sprint review and now.
Try to move each Basecamp card using column A as the card ID and column B as the destination column ID. If a card ID is not found or is archived, write "not found" to column C and continue to the next row. Write "moved" or "failed" for all other rows.
When the sprint review added new triage columns you need to create first
Two of the destination columns in column B do not exist yet in the card table and need to be created before cards can be moved there.
Read the unique column IDs in column B. For any column ID that does not exist in the Basecamp card table for project ID 88776655, create a new column using the name in column D for that row. Then move all cards using column A as the card ID and column B as the destination column ID. Write confirmation to column C.
The pattern: move cards at the speed of data, not at the speed of clicking.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any card-movement sheet after a sprint review or planning session, then ask it to move the cards for you. The Basecamp integration is included in every plan. See also how to bulk-create Basecamp cards with steps or the Basecamp in Google Sheets overview.