Data export

Back up your workspace or transfer its configuration to another environment.

Overview

Exports produce a single ZIP file you can download, archive, or feed into a data import — either in the same workspace (to roll back) or in another workspace (to migrate or to seed a new environment with a known configuration).

You can export everything, or limit the scope to configuration only — useful when you want to share a workspace’s setup without sharing employee data.

Creating an export

1. Go to Admin › Data Export and click Create New Export
2. Under Format, choose Full backup (NDJSON) — the complete workspace, as a ZIP file you can import again. (The other format, Simple Excel , is described in Excel import.)
3. Choose the scope:
   • Leave the options off to export the complete workspace: configuration, employees, time events and balances
   • Turn on Configuration only to export only the workspace configuration (no employee data)
   • Turn on Anonymize personal data to replace names and email addresses with anonymous placeholders
4. Optionally, under Employee data scope , pick employees or org units to export only their data. Leave it empty to include all employees.
5. Click Export (Export Selection when you picked employees or org units)
6. The export runs as a background job. When it finishes, download the ZIP file from the list

What configuration includes

Use cases

To bring an exported file back into a workspace, see Data import.