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Hi Jörg, setting up default SmartRules to handle this could be a little tricky as “Progress” might be called something different in the Excel spreadsheet, and also doing it this way “locks” the resulting Task Info field from being edited directly. A better approach would be for MindManager to expand the options for handling this in the Excel data mapper import facility, so you could map the relevant column to the Progress field in Task Info regardless of its name in the spreadsheet, exactly as you can now do with Start Date, Due Date, etc. This approach would have the advantage that the Task Info field could be subsequently edited.

Actually I managed to get Claude to write a macro to run after importing the spreadsheet that does this with both Progress and Priority. First you import the spreadsheet with progress and priority mapped to topic properties of the same name, then run the macro which creates matching entries in the Priority and Progress Task Info fields. These are editable, but doing so doesn’t change the imported topic properties.

Hi Alex, Yes, there are many things that could be optimized, but my impression is that there isn't much motivation at MindManager to implement good ideas.

Hi Jörg, I agree that the rate of adoption of new features in MindManager is slower than it should be, but I suspect that adding features to a program as old and already feature-laden as MindManager is increasingly complex. And to be fair, the list of types that Excel data can be be mapped to on import has actually been increased since the feature was first introduced - hopefully these options will be expanded further to include features such as progress, priority and Kanban.

Hi Jörg,

I've added this as an idea: https://community.mindmanager.com/topic/3275-excel-data-mapper-continue-expanding-the-data-import-options.

Hi Alex,
thanks for the idea - you have my vote.