The Scenario
Someone on your HR team left last month, and with them went the institutional knowledge of how the employee directory form in Formdesk actually gets populated. You have 150 employee records in a Google Sheet — first name, last name, email, department, start date — and they all need to exist as Formdesk form entries before the new onboarding system goes live next Monday.
You've been staring at the Formdesk API docs for twenty minutes.
The bad version:
- You open Formdesk and look for an import function. There isn't one — Formdesk creates entries through its API, not a CSV upload.
- You ask the developer on your team to write a script. They're three sprints behind. You're not getting a script this week.
- You spend two hours manually filling in the Formdesk form for each employee, one at a time, copying from the sheet, pasting into the browser, clicking submit, going back, starting again.
You were hired to run onboarding operations, not to be a data entry clerk for 150 rows. Monday is not that far away.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your employee data and, through its built-in Formdesk integration, creates each entry in Formdesk for you — no API script, no developer request, no tab switching.
For each row in my sheet, create a new Formdesk entry using first name from column A, last name from column B, and email from column C in form ID '1234'
What You Get
- A new Formdesk form entry for every row in your sheet
- Each entry populated with the correct field values from the corresponding row
- Column D updated with the created entry ID so you have a record of what was created
- Rows where creation fails get a note in column D — so nothing disappears silently
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some rows are missing an email address
For each row in my sheet, create a new Formdesk entry using first name from column A, last name from column B, and email from column C in form ID '1234' — skip any row where column C is blank and write 'skipped — no email' in column D
You want to push department and start date too
Create a Formdesk entry for each row using first name (column A), last name (column B), email (column C), department (column D), and start date (column E) in form ID '1234' — write the returned entry ID into column F
The form ID is in the sheet, not hardcoded
For each row in my sheet, create a new Formdesk entry in the form whose ID is in cell A1 using the data in columns B through F — log the returned entry ID in column G
Full validation + bulk create in one shot
Check column C (email) for duplicates across the sheet, flag duplicate rows with 'duplicate' in column G, then for all non-flagged rows create a Formdesk entry in form ID '1234' using columns A through F and write the entry ID back into column H
The pattern: ask for both the data check and the creation in a single prompt. SheetXAI handles the conditional logic before it touches Formdesk.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a list of records ready to push, drop the Formdesk form ID into cell A1, and ask it to create the entries. Then link to Export All Formdesk Submissions Into a Google Sheet or back to the Formdesk integration overview.