Import your LoopedIn ideas

Bring your LoopedIn feedback (ideas) into a SimpleBoards board using a CSV file.

Before you start:

Step by step

  1. In the WordPress admin menu, click SimpleBoards > Settings.
  2. Open the Import tab.
  3. In the Target Board dropdown, pick the board the ideas should go into.
  4. In the LoopedIn Ideas CSV row, click Choose File and pick your feedback CSV.
  5. Leave the LoopedIn Roadmap CSV row empty (unless you also want to import roadmap items in the same run, see Import your LoopedIn roadmap).
  6. In the Duplicate Handling section, decide what to do when an idea title already exists on the target board:
    • Leave both boxes unticked to skip ideas with a title that already exists. This is the safe default.
    • Tick Allow duplicate titles (always create new items) to create a new idea every time, even when the title matches.
    • Tick Overwrite existing item when title already exists on this board to update the existing idea with the new description, date, and vote count instead of creating a new one.
    • If you tick both boxes, overwrite runs first for matched titles, and any remaining rows are created as new ideas.
  7. Click Import CSV.

What the importer reads

The importer reads these columns from the file. Column names are matched in a flexible way: spaces and capitals do not matter (for example, Created Date and created_date are both fine).

Column What it does
Title Becomes the idea title. Required. Rows without a title are skipped.
Description Becomes the idea description. HTML tags are removed.
Category Becomes the category. If a category with this name does not exist, SimpleBoards creates it.
Votes Becomes the starting vote count.
Created Date Becomes the date the idea was first posted.

Any other columns in the file are ignored.

What changed

When the import finishes, a message at the top of the page shows how many ideas were imported, how many were skipped, and how many failed. The new ideas show on the Ideas tab of the board you picked.

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