I am trying to automate the generation of task lists and build a pipeline for importing them to my project. The documentation on this could use some improvement: https://quire.io/guide/import-quire-csv/
Specifically, it would be helpful if you provided the exact format for the Quire CSV import file. It appears to be different than the export format - I tested exporting a project and importing it and the parent-child relationships were lost in the process.
My best guess at the import format was: ID,Parent,Name,Description,Priority,Status,Start,Due,Assignee,Tag
But testing this format proved to be unsuccessful as I didn't end up importing any tags.
Thanks! I've been good to go since I did my second round of testing, but hopefully this will save other users a bit of confusion in the future.
ktuccy, Jun 17, 2026
Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to test this out and sharing the findings.
We've passed the feedback on improving the import documentation and providing a sample file to our team.
On the issues you ran into, we weren't able to reproduce them on our end. Could you help us provide more details such as:
- For the parent-child relationships being lost: could you share the CSV sample you used and the steps you followed?
- For the tags: Quire can only map to tags that already exist in the project during import. Were the tags in your CSV new ones or ones already created in the project?
Golda, Jun 4, 2026
Hi Golda -
Thanks for the response. Based on the info you provided, I did some further testing.
- Regarding the parent-child relationships being lost, this happened because I chose the "Merge all values of the same headers into one column" option on my test import. I tried the export-import process again without that flag, and it worked fine.
- For the tags, I ran another test on my file after pre-populating the new tags from the csv I had generated, and they were included in the import.
So, I'm pretty much good to go. My feedback at this stage would be that it would be helpful to add a bit more detail to the documentation page:
- Note that when importing a csv, tags must exist in the target project or they will be dropped.
- Provide a definitive preferred format for a user-generated csv import file. While the format I'm using works, I'm not sure if I would be better off mirroring the format generated by the Quire export.
ktuccy, Jun 4, 2026
Hi,
Thanks for testing this out and glad you got the parent-child issue sorted.
On the tags, we have this noted in our import CSV FAQ if you'd like to reference it.
And good news on the CSV format: we've just added a sample CSV file you can download directly from the guide page. That should give you a clearer picture of the preferred format going forward.
Hope that helps!
Golda, Jun 17, 2026