A quick and dirty PHP script to import CSV files in Kanboard (http://kanboard.net/). Till we have native CSV import in Kanboard itself.
- Creates tasks in Kanboard from CSV file. Useful for bulk task creation.
- Create tasks in multiple projects, swimlanes, with different color codes... whatever Kanboard Webhook API allows
- Supports fields while creation: project_id, title, description, color_id, owner_id, column_id
- PHP 5.x. Tested on PHP 5.5+
- Tested against Release 1.0.12, latest Kanboard development branch.
- Download and put the csv2kanboard.php file somewhere.
- IMPORTANT: You must set the Kanban webhook URL. Get it from http://<kanboard_url>/?controller=config&action=webhook. You can set it to one of these files:
- A file with name
.csv2kanboard
in the same directory. Just paste it in the file and make sure it's the first line. - Open the
csv2kanboard.php
and set it there at line number 7. This is overridden if mentioned in.csv2kanboard
file.
- A file with name
- Run
php csv2kanboard.php <filename>
. You need to pass a comma delimited filename as argument.
Example command line:
php csv2kanboard.php sample.csv
Note: A sample data file is included. You can test with that -or- start creating your task list from it.
The CSV should be structured this way:
- First line is assumed as header and skipped.
- Columns must be in this order: project_id, title, description, color_id, owner_id, column_id
- Mandatory fields:
- project_id: If not provided, row will be skipped
- title: If not provided, row will be skipped
- [tips: These can be used to ignore a line. For example you want to skip certain lines (used as section identifier or header), set either of them blank.]
- Optional field values:
- description: Can contain markdown syntax
- color_id: yellow, blue, green, purple, red, orange and grey. Default yellow. Anything else will create task with white background. But later you can always change it
- owner_id: Numeric owner id. Default unassigned
- column_id: Numeric column id. Defaults to first column on board. If column id does not belong to this project, task is not created and no error is shown
- category_id: Numeric category id
- Blank lines are ignored.
- If it says 'Not Authorized', it means the token is not valid.
- The webhook URL can be checked from browser. Call this URL from browser it's alright if you get a FAILED message. If you see 'Not Authorized' then this is not correct.