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Allow export of a single channel/user/team

Open svelle opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

When using the mmctl export command it would be absolutely terrific to have the option of exporting only a selected user, channel or team instead of everything!

Something like

mmctl export --channel [channelid] mmctl export --team [teamid] mmctl export --user [username]

Cheers!

svelle avatar Apr 29 '21 12:04 svelle

Created the ticket: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-40522

isacikgoz avatar Dec 07 '21 11:12 isacikgoz

@svelle - Can you give some more context into this? Was this requested by a customer?

  • Is the usecase to export a single channel from one server to another? Without exporting users, how would the posts look like? Do you expect ghost-like user profiles? Permalinks would be broken as well but that's less of a concern.
  • What does exporting a single user mean? All posts for a user? But what if one reply was a child of a parent post? In a CRT world, how would that look? Would it even make sense to export posts without context of surrounding posts?

agnivade avatar Jun 12 '22 16:06 agnivade