Make Journal Entry Reports Exportable

[#1]

The new Journal Entry report type is fantastic. I've used it for creating dashboards which record commonly referred-to and updated custom form fields. I've also created dashboards for admin/group leads to do some sleuthing when data was changed in order to increase transparency.

That said, the main problem is that you can't export the thing. I understand that, if you don't filter it out, you'll get an unreasonable list of results. That said, if used in a layout template on the Project/Task/Issue pages, the need to export is self-evident.

Ideally, we should have the ability to either turn exporting ON or OFF, depending upon the type of report and where it's used.

[#2]

The journal entry report is great, but we use it to capture key info for metrics that then needs to get cut & analyzed by the date the journal entry was made & by who updated the field. Not being able to export this type of report is a huge limitation for us. The functionality, from a user perspective, should be the same as any other report type. I agree with John, that if Workfront feels the need then they can include the ability to turn exporting ON or OFF. But at a minimum all reports should be exportable.

[#3]

I agree, I recently ran into the need to export the journal entry report. I needed to compare the date on the journal entry with the corresponding task due date - number of days between those dates was accomplished with text mode. But then I needed to export the report and do further calculations to determine the percentage of times the journal entry happened after the task due date (late).

[#4]

As a workaround to the export, we have used send report in xlsx format. It would be nice to have it just export though.