Describe the solution you'd like

"Export" categories looks like it only exports Categories. Which ... makes sense.

What I'd like to see: a way to export custom categories for specific items that have been dragged (after enabling Categories : "Show add buttons [ ] (while dragging)").

The reason for this is to be able to fully export a configuration. Both for self backup as well as giving to friends.

You can either export all your categories (bottom left Export button in Categories settings) or just one with the "Export" button in the Edit area. Are you looking to export all the settings from the other tabs too?

I'm looking for a way to either include a list of manually dragged items (example follows) in the full Export (left side bottom of Categories tab) or simply a separate list of manual item mappings.

Example: say I have Goblin Glider (which I think goes in the Misc category by default?) dragged to a category named "Fun Stuff". Then imagine I have multiple other random things dragged to that "Fun Stuff" category.

The goal would be able to do some form of export that will be able to be imported on another machine (or my current machine re-imaged). Probably has to go into the full export format for that to work, as "Fun Stuff" would also have to exist. But there could be 2 export options (1 that is FULL, 1 that only does the current type of export of Categories only). So long as the Import function can parse both.

Note: I can do a backup of addons and restore them, been there, done that. But that use case doesn't help less knowledgeable users, is a hassle for just handing your export to a friend who's never configured the addon before, and doesn't really help with true disaster recovery unless you've made sure to keep your backups current.

The export already includes the items dragged into the category.

Ok, I must have missed them when looking at the file.

I was having an odd issue where the export was truncated so the item data might have been past the truncation.

Disabling all addons and re-enabling them fixed the truncation (no idea why as I enabled all the same addons, and I was never able to repro) and I didn't revisit this after fixing the truncation. Closing. Thanks.