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Bug 220421

Summary:	include task data, contexts and repositories in task list export functionality
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Robert Elves <robert.elves>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	248364

Description Robert Elves

2008-02-26 12:55:10 EST

Consider including offline task data as an option to the export/import functionality.

Comment 1 Robert Elves

2008-06-03 21:31:10 EDT

Since read state is held in the task list, this isn't of much value considering the disk space consumed. Marking wontfix.

Comment 2 Steffen Pingel

2008-09-23 22:34:37 EDT

I think we should reconsider this as it would allow to transfer tasks between task lists without requiring synchronization.

Comment 3 Steffen Pingel

2009-01-29 02:08:02 EST

The refactored export implementation only exports task list information. A more complete implementation should take task data, contexts and the list of task repositories into account.

Comment 4 Mik Kersten

2009-02-06 10:23:18 EST

For the import/export, why don't we just zip up the whole directory?  I can see that being overkill for history snapshots, but it seems easier and safer for import/export.

Comment 5 Steffen Pingel

2009-02-06 16:30:20 EST

To clarify: import/export refers to the functionality available from the Import and Export menu in the task list. Backup, Restore and Snapshots which are available from the Eclipse File Import / Export are a separate feature. 

Backup now exports the entire .mylyn directory. Snapshots only include the task list, repositories and activity.

Comment 6 Robert Elves

2009-02-11 22:28:49 EST

This is done.

Comment 7 Steffen Pingel

2009-02-12 16:33:58 EST

This bug report is about adding the functionality to Task List import/export to support sharing of tasks. We need to reiterate over the terminology since it is even confusing to ourselves.

Comment 8 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

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