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Export to Spreadsheet/Excel feature from Batch Edit mode on a project column
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We have been using Maniphest/Projects internally in the company as an efficient way for tracking, triaging and resolving bugs in the past. The Export to Excel feature comes in really handy when trying to extract task information. Alternately, this can be really useful when targeted info on tasks in a specific state in the project workflow is required. However, the Projects application does not provide this export to excel feature when the Batch Edit mode is launched from one of the columns in a project. Maniphest advanced search also does not allow search by column names on a project workboard.

It would be really useful if tasks in a specific column on a project (and hence in a specific state in the project workflow) can somehow be exported to excel - whether via a devoted button in the batch edit view or capability to perform advanced search based on column names in projects.

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ysood created this task.Oct 13 2016, 3:00 PM
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epriestley closed this task as Invalid.Oct 13 2016, 3:11 PM
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This feature request does not describe a root problem. See Describing Root Problems.

In particular, this request only allows us to solve the issue you're facing in exactly one way, by building the specific feature you've described. Problem descriptions need to be general enough that it's possible for us to suggest alternatives or workarounds, propose alternate solutions, think about a problem more generally, etc. You haven't included enough information to allow us to do that.

The first question to answer in expanding this request might be "What do you do with the data you export to Excel?". If you included information like that, it's possible that we can provide you another way to accomplish the same task, or build a more general feature that solves the problem you're facing and other problems, too. But we don't have enough information here to do that.

Feel free to re-file this task with more information. If you do, please read Contributing Feature Requests and Describing Root Problems very carefully before filing a new task.

If there's anything we could do to improve the feature request workflow so this requirement is more obvious, please let us know.

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