Team Chat history export (planned)

What it is

Status: In-development (not yet built). Registered as unreleased feature team-chat-export.

Why it matters

As a multi-user cloud product, Omniscio's Team Chat stores user-generated content server-side (Firestore). GDPR Article 20 requires that users can obtain their personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. Beyond compliance, export is also useful for:

• Workspace migration (moving to/from another tool).
• Archival and backup.
• Audit and legal discovery.

Current state

No code exists yet. The feature is registered in UNRELEASED_FEATURES with setting key teamChatExportEnabled and gated via the standard unreleased-feature mechanism.

Where to find it

Nothing to open — this is planned work with no screen in the product yet.

How it behaves

What it will do

Allow users to export their Team Chat channel or DM history to a portable format (JSON, CSV, or both). This is a GDPR Article 20 data portability requirement for a multi-user cloud product.

Planned capabilities

• Per-channel export -- export all messages from a specific channel or DM conversation.
• Date range filter -- optionally limit the export to a specific time period.
• Format options -- JSON (machine-readable, preserves all metadata) and CSV (human-readable, spreadsheet-compatible).
• Include attachments -- option to include or exclude file attachments in the export.

Scope and considerations

• Authorization: only workspace owners/admins should be able to export an entire channel; individual users should be able to export their own DMs.
• Volume: channels can have thousands of messages; the export may need to be paginated or streamed.
• Privacy: exported data must respect the same visibility rules as the live chat (no leaking private channels a user cannot read).
• Delivery: large exports may need to be generated server-side and delivered as a download link rather than built client-side.

Related

• team-chat.md — the surface being exported.
• team-chat-api-platform.md — the other planned Team Chat capability.
• team-chat-dead-letter-recovery.md — the other planned Team Chat capability.