# Include comments in export **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Ideas\ **Tags:** import-export\ **Created:** [11 April 2017 03:59 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641 "2017-04-11T03:59:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jessica\_Everingham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jessica_everingham/32/2243_2.png) [@Jessica\_Everingham](https://forum.asana.com/u/Jessica_Everingham)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2017 03:59 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/1 "2017-04-11T03:59:40Z")
Just making a suggestion that it would be handy to be able to include comments when a project is exported to csv. Our team asks questions and records decisions in comments sometimes, and we’d like a permanent record of it. ---
**Author:** ![michael\_crema](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/michael_crema/32/574_2.png) [@michael\_crema](https://forum.asana.com/u/michael_crema)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2017 21:49 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/2 "2017-04-11T21:49:39Z")
I’ll second this suggestion. Since my team works with clients, we often conclude our projects with handing off our Asana data. An export of comments would be incredibly value in this handoff. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Raymond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/daniel_raymond/32/2721_2.png) [@Daniel\_Raymond](https://forum.asana.com/u/Daniel_Raymond)\ **Post date:** [21 April 2017 18:38 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/3 "2017-04-21T18:38:31Z")
Hello! Simply use [bridge24.com/asana](http://bridge24.com/asana) You can export your tasks, subtasks, comments and documents to Excel or CSV. All your comments will be in a distinct sheet in Excel… very easy to manage this way. ---
**Author:** ![Balint\_Pataki](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/balint_pataki/32/6570_2.png) [@Balint\_Pataki](https://forum.asana.com/u/Balint_Pataki)\ **Post date:** [12 September 2017 14:30 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/6 "2017-09-12T14:30:40Z")
Yes, add this please! It’s really important! ---
**Author:** ![Matthew\_Kuzio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/matthew_kuzio/32/7786_2.png) [@Matthew\_Kuzio](https://forum.asana.com/u/Matthew_Kuzio)\ **Post date:** [18 September 2017 18:39 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/7 "2017-09-18T18:39:05Z")
We are using Asana to help launch a new charter school (publically funded). We need to be able to export comments in order to comply with public information requests. Although we don’t anticipate those happening often, it is still a feature that we need to be fully in compliance. ---
**Author:** ![skjerns](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@skjerns](https://forum.asana.com/u/skjerns)\ **Post date:** [1 March 2018 10:37 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/8 "2018-03-01T10:37:23Z")
This feature is really lacking at the moment. We use comments to record decisions and they are lost when exporting to csv. Due to privacy reasons we cannot use an external tool for this task. ---
**Author:** ![Kim\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/kim_s/32/17604_2.png) [@Kim\_S](https://forum.asana.com/u/Kim_S)\ **Post date:** [24 August 2018 22:11 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/10 "2018-08-24T22:11:29Z")
This would be incredibly helpful. Our team is doing updates in the comment section to each other and it is a redundancy to ask them to also put that info in the description field so it can be shown in our weekly reports. ---
**Author:** ![vicravenchester](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@vicravenchester](https://forum.asana.com/u/vicravenchester)\ **Post date:** [28 September 2018 14:35 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/11 "2018-09-28T14:35:25Z")
Hi does anyone know if Asana are going to include comments in the export of projects? Ideally just the latest comment ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Egolf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/emily_egolf/32/24527_2.png) [@Emily\_Egolf](https://forum.asana.com/u/Emily_Egolf)\ **Post date:** [1 November 2018 18:42 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/12 "2018-11-01T18:42:37Z")
Is it possible to view complete tasks with the comments? We use the comment section to document important information, but can’t seem to see our data for the completed tasks and comments together ---
**Author:** ![Marie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/marie/32/42208_2.png) [@Marie](https://forum.asana.com/u/Marie)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2018 09:56 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/13 "2018-11-05T09:56:28Z")
Hi @Emily_Egolf and welcome to the Forum 👋🏼 This does sound strange 🤔 As long as you don’t manually delete comments, they should always show up in your task, even when you mark the task complete! Is the data missing when you open the completed tasks details? Is there any chance you could share a screenshot of what you see? (Please make sure to hide any private data such as email addresses or full names from your screenshot). Looking forward to your reply! ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Egolf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/emily_egolf/32/24527_2.png) [@Emily\_Egolf](https://forum.asana.com/u/Emily_Egolf)\ **Post date:** [5 November 2018 16:18 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/14 "2018-11-05T16:18:05Z")
Hello Marie! Thanks so much for replying so quickly. I should clarify my question… My question is about the reporting feature. I would love to be able to export each task to include notes AND comments, but the only way to export is to print to pdf (but this doesn’t include comments). Is there a way to fix this? Thanks again for your help! ---
**Author:** ![Marie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/marie/32/42208_2.png) [@Marie](https://forum.asana.com/u/Marie)\ **Post date:** [6 November 2018 11:21 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/15 "2018-11-06T11:21:32Z")
Got it @Emily_Egolf! Since your question is slightly different than the topic of this thread, I’ve moved your post to †he correct thread; hope that’s ok! Have a look at the answers above and in particular this [one](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/3) which could be a great a solution for you! Hope this helps! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jmitchell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/jmitchell/32/24145_2.png) [@jmitchell](https://forum.asana.com/u/jmitchell)\ **Post date:** [17 March 2019 13:23 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/16 "2019-03-17T13:23:06Z")
+1 for this feature. We need the ability to include comments in the exported csv for permanent record. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Gaida](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/marcel_gaida/32/31444_2.png) [@Marcel\_Gaida](https://forum.asana.com/u/Marcel_Gaida)\ **Post date:** [29 March 2019 11:31 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/17 "2019-03-29T11:31:52Z")
I fully agree - especially since in some teams comments can be pile up and become quite extensive even though it shouldn’t. Being able to export it as well, without having to rely on a third party paid feature would be brilliant. Is there any news on this? ---
**Author:** ![gf11](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/gf11/32/27091_2.png) [@gf11](https://forum.asana.com/u/gf11)\ **Post date:** [24 June 2019 16:43 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/18 "2019-06-24T16:43:42Z")
Agreed! this seems like a simple thing to add to asana export. Is there any news @Marie ? ---
**Author:** ![Marie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/marie/32/42208_2.png) [@Marie](https://forum.asana.com/u/Marie)\ **Post date:** [25 June 2019 08:03 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/19 "2019-06-25T08:03:45Z")
Not at the moment @gf11 but I’ll keep you posted on this thread as soon as I have an update! ---
**Author:** ![Aimee\_Cash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/aimee_cash/32/42403_2.png) [@Aimee\_Cash](https://forum.asana.com/u/Aimee_Cash)\ **Post date:** [10 October 2019 22:05 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/20 "2019-10-10T22:05:42Z")
+1 on this! The timestamps associated with comments makes it the obvious location to add info/communication updates tasks(i.e. “e-mailed contact, waiting on reply”), but then those are lost when exporting project status sheets for folks outside of Asana. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Stauffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/ashley_stauffer/32/46948_2.png) [@Ashley\_Stauffer](https://forum.asana.com/u/Ashley_Stauffer)\ **Post date:** [5 December 2019 01:38 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/21 "2019-12-05T01:38:53Z")
Agree that this feature would be helpful. We are working on creating a business process map for data acquisition projects at our University. We have several use cases that are documented as tasks in Asana and we want to be able to export the task, subtask, and all information in the comments threads including the updates that Asana generates (e.g. when due dates are changed, when someone is assigned). Dates of the comments and who made the comment would also be necessary. Beyond export into Excel I’m wondering if anyone is looking at the Asana data in this way though and API or other way? ---
**Author:** ![Cassandra\_Glenn](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Cassandra\_Glenn](https://forum.asana.com/u/Cassandra_Glenn)\ **Post date:** [9 December 2019 23:16 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/22 "2019-12-09T23:16:13Z")
I did this but it seems that i cannot get comments on completed tasks or completed tasks to even integrate with the tool. How can I fix this? I am not able to uncomplete and then completed just to have it imported correctly with comments ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Raymond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/daniel_raymond/32/2721_2.png) [@Daniel\_Raymond](https://forum.asana.com/u/Daniel_Raymond)\ **Post date:** [9 December 2019 23:45 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641/23 "2019-12-09T23:45:50Z")
On top-right of the grid view, you have a drop down to include the completed tasks. When selected, you can then export the tasks to Excel. On the Export Popup, make sure you select the option “Separate sheets for comments and attachments”. I suggest you contact them by email at [support@bridge24.com](mailto:support@bridge24.com) for questions like that. [Next page](https://forum.asana.com/t/include-comments-in-export/1641.md?page=2)