Data and tools
Importing your data
Bring rocks, scorecard measurables, to-dos, issues, headlines and people across from Ninety or a spreadsheet.
Starting from empty boards is the fastest way to make a new tool feel worse than the old one. Runway imports what you already have, from Ninety directly or from a CSV or Excel file.
From Ninety#
The Ninety import connects to your account and brings a team across in one pass.
Create a Personal Access Token in Ninety
Paste it into the import dialog in Runway.
Pick the Ninety team
It lands in whichever Runway crew you started the import from, so open the right crew first.
Choose what to bring
Runway previews everything it found and you tick what you actually want. Leaving a stale issues list behind is a perfectly good choice.
Import
Everything saves through the same paths the app itself uses, so your permissions apply exactly as usual.
What comes across#
| From Ninety | Arrives as |
|---|---|
| Rocks and milestones | Rocks in Flight Path, with milestones attached, so a rock arrives already broken down. |
| Scorecard measurables | Metrics in Control Tower with their title, unit, goal, owner and interval, ready to take numbers. |
| Open to-dos | To-dos with their owners. |
| Open issues | Issues on the Land the Plane list. |
More on moving over, including what Runway deliberately does not do, on Runway vs Ninety.
From a spreadsheet#
Every list that imports from Ninety also imports from a file, in .csv or .xlsx. Each import dialog previews the rows it parsed before anything is written, so a wrong column is something you see rather than something you undo.
- Scorecard: a grid with a goal column and week columns. A Ninety scorecard export works as it comes.
- Rocks: rocks in one table and milestones in another, stitched together on import.
- To-dos, issues and announcements: one row each.
People#
Members import from a file too, which beats inviting a leadership team one address at a time. The columns are Email, First Name, Last Name, Role and Crews, in any order, with extra columns ignored.
Nameworks in place of the first and last name pair.- Several crews in one cell are separated by semicolons, because commas would collide with the CSV delimiter.
- Download the template from the import dialog rather than guessing the header row.
Exporting#
The scorecard exports back out to CSV, carrying the same average and total figures the board was showing for the range on screen, so the file agrees with the page it came from. To-dos, issues and announcements export as well.