# Feature COMMS-2 - Bulk create work packages from plain text (e.g. list from meeting notes)

Project: Stream Communicator
Status: new
URL: https://community.openproject.org/work_packages/COMMS-2

## Planning

| Attribute | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Date |  |
| Priority | Medium |
| Target versions | Wish List |
| Sprint |  |
| Backlog bucket |  |
| Votes | 8 |
| List | UX/UI |
| Roadmap |  |
| Relevance |  |

## OPEN POINTS / FEEDBACK

_No work packages_

## Features and Chunks

_No work packages_

## Bugs and other work packages

_No work packages_

## Technical Details

| Attribute | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Module | Modules and project features / Text editor |
| Feature Flag |  |
| Requires doc change | Yes |
| Enterprise plan |  |

## Details

| Attribute | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Pull preview |  |
| Mockups |  |
| Accessibility | No |

## People

| Attribute | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Assignee |  |
| Accountable |  |
| Product manager |  |
| Developers |  |
| Designer |  |
| Ordered by |  |
| Signed off by |  |
| Interest by |  |

## Estimates and progress

| Attribute | Value |
| --- | --- |
| PD (min) |  |
| PD (max) |  |
| Work |  |
| Labor costs |  |

## Description

**As** a work package creator  
**I want to** bulk create work packages from plain text, line separate, notes document (that is copy-paste friendly)  
**so that** I can create many work package from meeting notes easily and natively

**Acceptance criteria**

*   an obvious "Create many new work packages" like option is available on the ./projects/myproject/work\_packages page, which focuses a blank textentry area
*   this new input accepts multi-line text
*   blank lines are ignored
*   the following literal text creates two new work packages, "Hello" and "World" when submitted

```text
Hello
World
```

*   multi line submissions have a reasonable, modern, default limit, say 120 kilobyte? That should be sufficient for up to about 1000 subject lines in a multi create
*   submitting a multi create that nearly uses the default limit should process reasonable quickly on recommended hardware (should not have a likely probability of timing out of the default response time limit)
*   optional: max multi-line submission size may be configurable
*   optional: create time field values other than subject (similar to existing batch edit field values)

\---

**Notes**  
multi-line text to multiple work package create

as per [https://community.openproject.com/topics/12991?r=13026#message-13026](https://community.openproject.com/topics/12991?r=13026#message-13026)  
There has been mentioned a MS Excel specific worksheet that can automate bidirectional sync with openproject, this is an excellent tool in general.  However I suggest it is still important that basic bulk create (and export which already exists, yay) be supported in the native openproject interface.

I suggest the feature to reduce the current O(n) work package creation, where the current features requires a per-work-package new-task-click, input-focus, text entry (from copy paste), submit loop. Reduce that to a  O(0n + 1) manual work package creation, which is much more attractive for a modest to large quantity of work packages.