The Scenario
The product manager inherited a backlog. The previous PM left two months ago and the handoff document is a Google Sheet with 60 feature requests — feature name in column A, description in column B, parent component name in column C. None of them are in Productboard. The engineering team is already asking what's in the queue. The answer is: a spreadsheet that nobody besides this PM can see.
Getting 60 features into Productboard one at a time means 60 modal dialogs, 60 searches for the parent component, 60 manual description pastes. The PM estimates it would take three hours. The PM has a product review in two hours.
The bad version:
- Open Productboard. Click "Add feature." Type the name. Paste the description. Search for the component. Click save.
- Feature 4 fails because the component name doesn't exactly match what Productboard has on file. Look up the right component name. Fix it. Continue.
- After 12 features, realize you've been typing into the wrong product the whole time. Delete them. Start over.
Three hours of setup work that adds no product thinking — it just moves data from one place to another.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your backlog data and creates the features in Productboard through its built-in integration.
For each row in this sheet, create a Productboard feature using column A as the name, column B as the description, and column C as the parent component name — write the returned feature ID into column D
What You Get
- A Productboard feature created for every row in your sheet.
- The returned Productboard feature ID written into column D as confirmation.
- Any rows where creation failed (component name not found, duplicate feature name) get the error message in column D instead of an ID.
- The sheet becomes the audit log — you can see exactly which features made it in and which need attention.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some component names in column C don't match Productboard exactly
Before creating features, fetch all Productboard component names and write them into Sheet2 column A. For each row in Sheet1 column C, find the closest matching component name in Sheet2 and write it into Sheet1 column D. I will review column D before running the import.
You also want to set an initial status on each feature
For each row in columns A through C, create a Productboard feature with name from column A, description from column B, component from column C, and status "under-consideration". Write the returned feature ID into column D.
Some rows are missing a description
For each row in this sheet, if column B is blank, create the Productboard feature with name from column A and component from column C but without a description, and mark column E "no-description". For rows where column B has content, include the description as usual.
The full validated import
Fetch all Productboard component names into Sheet2. For each row in Sheet1: if column C doesn't match any component in Sheet2, mark column D "component-not-found" and skip. If column A is blank, mark column D "name-missing" and skip. Otherwise create the feature with name, description, and component, and write the returned feature ID into column D.
60 features in Productboard before the product review. The queue is visible to everyone who needs to see it.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet containing a feature backlog — inherited from a previous PM, collected from sales calls, or exported from a project tool — then ask SheetXAI to push it all into Productboard in one pass. See also exporting the feature roadmap or the hub overview.