Overview
Bring existing feedback into Canny by uploading a CSV file. This is useful when you're migrating from another tool or have feedback tracked in a spreadsheet you want to manage in Canny.
Canny Ideas is available on Free, Pro, and Business plans. Teams on legacy plans (Starter or Growth) will need to move to new plans to access Ideas.
How to import
On the Ideas dashboard, open the import option from the top-level ideas view, or from a specific group's view to send everything into that group.
Drag in or upload your .csv file.
Map your columns to Canny fields: Title (required), Description, Status, and Group.
Toggle First row is a header (on by default) so your column names aren't imported as an idea.
Preview your rows, then confirm to start the import.
Validation
Before the import runs, Canny flags problems so nothing imports half-broken:
Rows missing a Title
Statuses or Groups in your file that don't exist yet
Things to note
Statuses and Groups are matched by name automatically.
If you import from within a group's view, the Group column in your CSV is ignored, and everything goes into that group.
Large imports run in the background with a live progress bar, so you can keep working while they finish.
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