Copy/Paste a draft list of tasks from Excel and/or Word into a Project

[#1]

Teams often want to brainstorm and begin to organize a list of tasks in something like Word and/or Excel. To avoid the cumbersome process of "uploading" the list into a project via a clunky kick-starter template, teams would like to easily copy the list of tasks from Word/Excel and paste them into a Project. Other programs they have used in the past have made this a common-practice approach. So, having a fast way to just copy and then paste a raw list of tasks into a project at any time would save time and decrease frustration/complaints.

[#2]

Derek, I agree that it would be best to be able to include dates, etc. but getting a list of tasks into Workfront via copy/paste is a good start.

[#3]

Similar idea posted here: https://support.workfront.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115004137113-Upload-Tasks-via-Excel

[#4]

Another thread asking for similar functionality:

https://support.workfront.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115004110993-Edit-task-fields-in-Excel-and-im...

[#5]

Hello,

This would be brilliant, as initial person detailed, teams often work in excel first and then move to Workfront when a complex project with many parts.

Thanks

Emma

[#6]

Thank you for the submission! We think this is a good enhancement to the Workfront platform overall and this product area in particular!

Workfront currently prioritizes large-scale, foundational enhancements such as the new Reporting experience and changes to the core data model, so this item does not fit in our near-term roadmap. As such, I am marking this as Declined now, but we'll keep this in our backlog for the improvements for this area so that we can revisit the decision in the future.

[#7]

Since this item has now been Declined (for now), I invite those interested to consider our Excel Updater solution to integrate data into Workfront without having to learn the API, write code, or set up a server, and is ideal for both one time and reoccurring data loads.

Regards,

Doug