The Scenario
It's Monday morning and your social media manager just pinged you. She's building the content calendar for the next two months and needs a clean list of every upcoming published event — name, start date, end date — sorted chronologically so she can map content beats against the event schedule. She has eight hours to finish the draft before the team reviews it.
She's not in Sympla. She doesn't have a login. And she shouldn't need one — she just needs the data.
The bad version:
- You log into Sympla, manually scan the events list, note which ones are published and upcoming, and type each one into the shared Google Sheet row by row.
- You export the full event list, open it, filter for "Published" status, filter again for events with a start date in the next 60 days, delete everything else, reformat the dates, sort by start date, and paste the result into the right sheet.
- You send your social manager a screenshot of the Sympla dashboard and tell her to pull what she needs from there.
None of these are the job. Your job is strategy and coordination. This list-pulling work doesn't belong to you or to her — it's infrastructure. And it keeps happening because there's no clean pipeline between Sympla and the sheet your team actually uses.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Google Sheet. It connects to Sympla directly and retrieves exactly the slice of data you need — filtered, sorted, ready to hand off — without you touching the Sympla dashboard or manipulating a CSV export.
List all published Sympla events with a start date in the next 60 days and write each event's name, start date, and end date into columns A, B, and C — sorted by start date
What You Get
- Column A: Event name
- Column B: Start date, sorted earliest to latest
- Column C: End date
- Only published events with a start date within the next 60 days — nothing cancelled, nothing outside the window
- Clean enough to hand directly to whoever is building the content calendar
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The date window needs to match a calendar quarter rather than 60 days
List all published Sympla events with a start date between today and the last day of the current quarter; write event name, start date, and end date into columns A, B, and C sorted by start date
Some published events are missing an end date
List all published Sympla events starting in the next 60 days; write event name and start date into columns A and B; if an end date is available write it in column C, otherwise write "TBD"
You need to merge this pull against a 'Channels' tab to add distribution labels
List all published Sympla events starting in the next 60 days and write name, start date, and end date into columns A, B, and C; then look up each event name in the 'Channels' tab and write the matching distribution channel in column D — write "General" if no match is found
You need a content-calendar-ready output with categorization done in one pass
List all published Sympla events starting in the next 60 days; write event name, start date, end date, and a "Content Window" column showing the date 7 days before each start date into columns A through D; exclude any event with "Internal" in the name; sort by start date
The idea: instead of pulling the raw data and building the derived columns afterward by hand, ask for the full output shape in one go.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Google Sheet where your content calendar lives, then ask it to pull your upcoming published Sympla events in whatever shape your team needs. Or go back to the full portfolio export spoke for a broader pull — or see the Sympla hub overview for a comparison of all the methods.