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mancerayder • yesterday at 9:56 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

All roads lead to Excel. When you try to make a nice dashboard in Jira that incorporated custom fields and all the data was normalized, nope - they send out an excel spreadsheet every time. They do this to any tool you try to use as a group tool to update things - like Confluence. Before you know it it's back in Excel again and you have multiple sources that keep getting lost.


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Zarathustra30 • yesterday at 10:59 PM

If data is structured enough to be put in a dashboard, it is structured enough to drive automated tools that make the dashboard redundant.

Excel is the modern equivalent of the back of a napkin. It is inescapable.

warmwaffles • yesterday at 10:40 PM

> can I get these results in a CSV format

And then they import to excel.

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