Do you have new action items from a customer meeting, a discussion or an email, that you need to record as a  structured, trackable and reportable work item in Clarizen?

With a few simple steps, you can add one or more tasks to Clarizen from a text file, excel table, HTML table or even bullet points, and assign them to a project, milestone, or task, or create a personal To Do task.

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Importing Tasks

After the app is installed, to import new tasks:

1. In the left-hand-side navigation menu, select Custom Actions > Quick Tasks Import.
   
   
2. In the pop-up window, paste your text.
   
   Note: You can create more than one task at a time. Each line of text represents a new task.
   
   
3. You can add tasks in one of the following ways depending on your project needs:
• To associate tasks with a project, milestone, or task, from the Work Item pick list, select the desired work item. Turn on the Action items toggle if you do not want the new tasks to affect the project plan.
  
  
• To associate tasks with a project, milestone, or task, from the Work Item pick list, select the desired work item. Turn off the Action items toggle to adjust the project plan.
  
  
• To add a task as a personal To Do task, leave the Work Item field empty and enable the Action Items? toggle.