The Scenario
Client invoice is due Friday. The project manager needs all worklogs for the 25 issues in project CONSULT for the past sprint — issue key, person, time spent in hours, and date — in a Google Sheet to reconcile against the client's statement of work. She has the issue keys. She does not have the time to click into each ticket and read the worklog entries one by one.
The bad version:
- Open Jira, click the first issue key, scroll to the worklog section.
- Note the author, time spent, and date. Switch to the sheet, type the values in.
- Back to Jira, navigate to the second issue key. Repeat twenty-five times.
- Realize on issue 18 that one entry had two separate worklog records and you only captured the first one.
Twenty-five issues with an average of two worklog entries each is fifty rows of manual data entry. At a billing rate of $150/hr, the time you're spending on this transcription is not what the client is paying for.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet and through the Jira integration fetches every worklog entry for every issue in one pass.
For each issue key in column A of my Timesheet sheet, fetch all worklogs from Jira and write the author, time spent in hours, and log date into columns B, C, D.
What You Get
- One row per worklog entry — if an issue has three log entries, it gets three rows, each with the issue key in column A.
- Author name, hours (converted from Jira's seconds format), and work date in columns B, C, D.
- Issues with no worklogs logged produce no rows rather than empty placeholders.
- The result is ready to sum by person or by issue for the invoice.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You don't have the issue keys — you just know the project and the date range
The issue keys weren't tracked. You need to pull everything logged in project CONSULT from the last two weeks.
Pull all worklogs for Jira project CONSULT from the past 2 weeks and write issue key, author name, hours logged, and work date into my sheet.
The author column has Jira display names but the invoice needs email addresses
The client's accounting team needs the email address, not the Jira display name, to match against their contractor list.
For each issue key in column A of my Timesheet sheet, fetch all worklogs from Jira. Write the author's email address (not display name), time spent in hours, and log date into columns B, C, D.
You need to sum hours by person and present a per-person total at the bottom
The client wants both the raw log and a summary section.
Fetch all worklogs for the issue keys in column A of my Timesheet sheet. Write one row per log entry with author, hours, and date into columns B, C, D. Then below the last row, add a per-author subtotal: each author's name and their total hours across all entries.
Kill chain: fetch worklogs, convert hours, flag entries over 8h/day, and add invoice subtotals
For each issue key in column A of my Timesheet sheet, fetch all Jira worklogs. Write issue key, author, hours, and date into columns A through D. Flag any entry where a single person logged more than 8 hours on the same date with 'Review' in column E. Below the data, add a subtotal row per author with their total billable hours.
One prompt handles the pull, the flag logic, and the summary — no post-processing step needed.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a Google Sheet with your Jira issue keys in column A, then ask it to pull every worklog entry across all tickets and write the author, hours, and date. See also: how to build a full billing-period timesheet from Jira worklogs and how to export open bugs for triage.