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Pull All Failed and Pending Planly Posts Into a Google Sheet for Remediation

2026-05-14
5 min read

The Scenario

It's Monday morning. A client emails: "I don't think our Saturday LinkedIn post went live — can you check?" You open Planly and find it wasn't just Saturday's post. There are eleven failed posts across three client teams from the past week, scattered across different channels. Nobody flagged them because nobody knew where to look.

You need a full picture fast. Not just one failed post — all of them, across every channel, with enough detail to figure out whether this is a reconnected-channel issue or something else entirely.

The bad version:

  • Navigate to each team in Planly, filter the schedule view to the past seven days, look for red or failed indicators, and manually copy each failed post's date, channel, and caption into a sheet.
  • Repeat for every team — there are eight — while the client is waiting for a reply.
  • Finish the inventory and realize you can't tell if the failure reason field is populated anywhere in Planly's interface without clicking into each post individually.

This is supposed to be a quick triage. It has turned into an hour of clicking and the client is still waiting.

The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI

SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet, understands what you're looking at, and through its built-in Planly integration it can pull every failed and pending post across all channels from the past week and write the full list into the sheet in one pass.

Open a Google Sheet, open the SheetXAI sidebar, and paste this prompt:

List all Planly schedule groups with a failed status and write the post title or caption, scheduled date, channel name, and failure reason into columns A–D of this sheet

What You Get

  • Column A: post caption or title snippet
  • Column B: originally scheduled date and time
  • Column C: channel name (e.g. "Client X Instagram")
  • Column D: failure reason if Planly surfaces one; "No reason provided" if not
  • One row per failed post, ordered by scheduled date descending
  • Posts with status 'error' are included alongside 'failed'

What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready

You want pending posts included alongside failed ones

List all Planly schedule groups with status 'failed' or 'pending' for the past 7 days and write caption (A), scheduled date (B), channel name (C), social network (D), and status (E) into this sheet

You want to filter to a single client team

List all Planly schedule groups with status 'failed' or 'error' for team 'Client Brand X' from the past 7 days and write caption snippet (A), scheduled date (B), channel (C), and failure reason (D) into this sheet

You want to group failed posts by channel to spot patterns

List all Planly schedule groups with status 'failed' for the past 7 days, sort by channel name, and write channel name (A), scheduled date (B), social network (C), caption (D), and failure reason (E) into this sheet

Full triage: pull all failed and pending posts, group by team, flag channels with repeat failures, and include a count

List all Planly schedule groups with status 'failed' or 'pending' for the past 7 days — group by team and channel, write team name (A), channel name (B), social network (C), failure count (D), most recent failure date (E), and most recent caption (F) into this sheet; flag any channel with more than 2 failures in column G as 'Repeat issue'

One prompt gives you the triage doc and the pattern detection simultaneously.

Try It

Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a Google Sheet, then ask it to surface every failed post from Planly in the past week. You can also check out how to audit your connected channels or read the Planly hub overview.

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