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Exporting data

Download the whole workspace as JSON, or issues, insights, reports and form responses as CSV.

Settings → Export data

You can take your data out at two sizes: the whole workspace as one JSON file, for a backup or a move, or a single list as a CSV spreadsheet — issues, the Insights numbers, a custom report or a form's responses.

Export the whole workspace

  1. Open Settings and choose Export data under Security & data.
  2. Press Download export.

Owners and Admins can do this, signed in through the app — an API token cannot download the whole workspace. Guests never can. The file is named after your workspace and today's date, for example acme-export-2026-10-16.json, and every export is recorded in the audit log.

What the workspace file contains

  • Members and roles
  • Projects, their teams, Definition of Done, sprints and releases
  • Workflows, statuses, trackers, priorities, labels and custom fields
  • Every issue with its comments, checklists, links, time logged and custom field values
  • Docs, goals and initiatives
  • A list of uploaded files: name, size and where each is stored
Passwords, two-factor secrets, connection credentials and public share links are never included. The uploaded files themselves are not in the file either — download them from where they are stored.

Export issues to CSV

  1. Open Issues and set the filters, search and sort you want.
  2. Press Export CSV.

The file holds every issue that matches, not just the page on screen, up to 5,000 rows; past that you are told to narrow the filters. Columns: Key, Title, Type, Status, Priority, Project, Assignee, Reporter, Labels, Points, Sprint, Release, Due, Created and Updated.

Other CSV exports

  • Insights — Export downloads the page's current numbers, one metric per row. See Insights.
  • Report Builder — on a saved report, CSV downloads its result, one column per grouping and measure. See The report builder.
  • Forms — Download CSV on a form's responses gives one row per response: when it came in, the issue it became, who sent it, and one column per question. See Forms.
  • Report schedules email the productivity report as a CSV on a cadence. See Report schedules.

Opening CSV files safely

Any cell that would start with =, +, - or @ is written with a leading apostrophe, so a spreadsheet shows it as text instead of running it as a formula. Titles and names are typed by people, and this stops one of them from becoming a live link or calculation in your spreadsheet.

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