include items type in import and export excel

Charlotte Wicht

Hello,
would be great if when exporting & importing an excel wrike recognize the item type.

Our use case:
When we are prepare a futur blueprint we have to remove the prefix on all tasks. in order to do it i have to export made a find and replace in excel than import again in Wrike to have the correct naming for the blueprint. BUT item type is not part of it so i have to re change all the items type.
This possibility would improve our process. because when you have a blueprint with 200 tasks it's time consuming to remove the prefix one by one. Or improvement could be done on convert a project to blueprint by using AI recognizing a define prefix and remove it.

Thanks.

Pietro Poli

@Charlotte Wicht
I love this suggestion! Having Item Types included in Excel imports/exports would definitely streamline the blueprint management process.

In the meantime, if your main goal is simply to bulk-rename tasks to remove prefixes, there is a much faster workaround that preserves the Item Type: the Mass Copy-Paste method.

Here is how you can do it:

1. Go to the Table View and select/highlight all the task names you need to change.
2. Copy them and paste them into a text editor (like Notepad, TextEdit, or VS Code).
3. Use the Find & Replace function in your text editor to remove the prefix from all names at once.
4. Copy the "cleaned" list of names, go back to Wrike, and paste them directly over the original selection in the "Name" column.

Wrike will update all the names in bulk while keeping the Item Types, dates, and all other metadata exactly as they were. It works perfectly even with hundreds of tasks!