Add "Export to CSV or PDF" to issues list
- Dev: https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/gitlabhq/issues/2171
- Zendesk ticket: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/2173 https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/14661
Requested feature
Customer would like to be able export a list of issues to CSV or PDF. This is his reasoning:
From previous experience with Redmine, it is extremely helpful to be able to take a list of issues and export them to PDF or CSV. This allows the list to be used for many different purposes. For example, one of our projects has weekly user stand-ups and it would be nice to export and send or email this week's list of top issues for discussion.
Concrete questions / Next steps
PDF might be too much work, but a CSV file could be useful.
Marin
I can see how a CSV would be useful in some organizations that are management heavy, but we have issues page with various filters if they want to be able to use the list in weekly standups.
Main issue I have with this is how to decide what goes into the CSV? Would you apply the existing filters and then export as CSV? If yes then what is the actual benefit of it. If no, then would you need a whole new page to decide what goes in?
Patricio
I was thinking we could use the filters and once the filter has been applied, you could use the "Mass update" checkbox to the left of each issue and select which issues you would like to export. Then we could add a button to export the selected issues. What do you think?
Marin
So UI that would look something like this
with information like: issue_title, issue_number, issue_status, assignee, milestone and maybe label.
I can see how this could be used for analysing and statistics. CSV is notoriously awful in rails as there are barely any actively developed gems so this is a pretty big feature request.