Data in and out

Exporting data

Everything you can see, you can take out. Exports run server-side and land in Background tasks, so a large one does not tie up your browser.

The three places to export from

What you wantWhere
A whole section Section Export
Just some rows Tick them with the checkbox column → Export
The numbers behind a chart Open the widget's settings → Export

Background tasks

Every export is queued as a background job rather than generated in the page. Open Background tasks in the navbar to see them, each showing one of three states:

  • Queued
  • Processed
  • Failed

You can navigate away, close the panel, or keep working — the job continues. The file becomes available when the job reports Processed.

The background tasks panel listing several export jobs with their status badges, one Queued, two Processed and one Failed
Exports queue server-side; the panel is where you collect them.
An export that never arrives has almost always failed rather than vanished. Background tasks is the first place to look.

What comes out

An export contains the rows as they are in the panel, with one column per panel column. Filters you had applied are respected, so filtering to one owner and exporting gives you that owner's rows.

Activity timelines, attachments and chat transcripts are not part of a row export — they belong to the record rather than the table.

How do I…

Export a section — Section Export, then watch Background tasks.

Export just the rows I filtered to — Apply the filter, select the rows, then Export from the bulk bar.

Get a chart's numbers out — Open the widget's settings → Export.

Find an export that never arrived — Navbar → Background tasks. Failures are listed there with the job that produced them.