Export/import [$30]

[jospoortvliet]

So Desk is awesome and we have decided to start using it for our marketing coordination (hi @NinaNC !)

One thing I'd like to see, but probably crazy, is a way to export boards. Both because I'm always worried something breaks but also it'd be nice to have them available off line.

Even nicer would be if the actual boards could be stored in markdown-ish text files on Nextcloud itself so I have full access to them and can keep working when flying but I realize that that is probably a bit too far fetched 🙄

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[radiantwave]

Would love to see a Export/Import function!

[wgregori]

speaking of import function. It would be nice to be able to import a templated structure of tasks to be completed. In my business I have a series of tasks that must be tracked for every transaction. The tasks are the same for each transaction. It would be great to be able to import the template and just go. Thanks!

[xenithorb]

I'm looking for this feature mostly because I'm concerned about putting a lot of effort into setting up and detailing many boards for myself, and then somehow losing all of it through an app-update or some nextcloud quirk. I'd like to not only be able to export it in an importable format, but in some kind of flat-file way too - perhaps a spreadsheet - so that I know my work and time I put into this is safe.

[dairaine]

+1 on the possibiliy to export decks, e.g. in a simple csv.

[juliusknorr]

@dairaine Please use the Github Reactions feature instead of commenting that also need a specific feature. That way we can see your support without notifying all users subscribed to a given issue.

Besides that adding a bounty at https://www.bountysource.com/issues/43773651-request-export-import might encourage community members to jump on and implement a specific feature. 😉

A WIP implementation for user data export is in #470

[NebriBlackwing]

@juliushaertl How should this be implemented? My initial thoughts is to create a page in the admin to export various boards / everything (for example a list of check boxes that represents the boards, the stacks, and cards in a tree) or to have an export button on the board pages themselves available to admins.

And yes I'm loving the "bounty hunter" role that I have found via Bounty source. It makes priorities / features that are in demand very clear for a contributor like myself.

[juliusknorr]

I think we will limit import/export to boards, so we can add the export action to the 3-dots menu in the board list. The should always create a new board then. We could put that one at the bottom of the app navigation (left sidebar).

[karloluiten]

As long as there is no export/import, is there a way to manually transfer the data to a new server? Via sql for example? I changed from VPS hosted NC to a server at home and would like to transfer this data as well.

Edit: exported the sqlite, used a converter, then imported the cards, that worked. First boards, then tags, then cards, then assigned tags.

Exporting/importing would be awesome. Having the board as a 'real' file on NC (like notes) would be best and would mean exporting is not really needed (or at that point easy to implement).