export resources to CSV

[gomisha]

The way they do when export to HTML and Excel - I'd like to archive my old projects in an archive DB but I lose the resource assignments when I export to CSV.

Related but separate point: If I can import from Excel that would solve this problem because the export to Excel exports the view (which is what I want) but the export to CSV exports the entire DB.
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[Serge]

CSV is a plain format (each task is a line) so when you import CSV of a task with resource 'A' to the database that has no resource 'A' in the list this information will not be imported.
Import from Excel is impossible because the program has no idea from which column it should take the data and to which it should put it.
However, we plan to develop XML import which will help you with exporting/importing tasks with assigned resources.

[gomisha]

OK, thanks for letting me know about the upcoming XML export which I think will be more flexible than flat CSV.

With respect to not being able to import resources, couldn't it work the same way as categories work now? If I don't have a category in my DB and I import a task with a specified category, that category gets created. I realize this would mean you'd have to have multiple Resource columns in the CSV file (e.g. name, email, department, phone, etc.) and I acknowledge that XML would be much more convenient for this, but I guess the XML import sounds like a bigger job to do than to add resource columns to the existing CSV export so I thought it could be a temporary feature, before XML importing is implemented.

Anyway, I'll wait for the XML export in the meantime - thanks.
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