Export in plain text does not work

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Volker Augustin

• September 03, 2018 07:48

In the past I have used Export All -> Plain Text -> Ctrl+A -> Ctrl-C to first show all the contents of a node in the export window and then mark it all and copy it. Afterwards, I pasted it into a cell in Excel and it would populate the column below the cell with one item of the workflowy per row.

 

With the new design there are two problems:

a) When selecting plain text, the copied content ends up completely in the selected Excel cell, so no more one item per Excel row. So probably a change in how line endings are encoded.

b) If you click anywhere so that the text in the Export All window is deselected, a Ctrl+A actually highlights and selects the text showing in the Workflowy main windows (where nodes might be collapsed) instead of the Export All popup window, so Ctrl+C then copies the main window and without plain text formatting.

 

I have so far used this to make a daily dump of my Workflowy content to create statistics of progress in Excel and am completely stuck now until this is fixed. So please, please please look into this quickly

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • September 13, 2018 17:30

  Thanks for letting us know about this!

  We will add it to our lists to fix.

   

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • October 10, 2018 22:52

  This is now fixed, thanks for reporting it.

   

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