Export

Just as you bring work in, you take it out. Export produces shareable, submittable, or exchangeable output from your governed records — whether for a person to read, a partner to import, or an archive to keep.

Documents

Records and reports export to document formats — Word, Excel, and PDF — for sharing and submission. This is how a trace matrix, a requirements set, or a compliance report becomes a polished document a reviewer or auditor can read outside the tool. The reporting side of this, with templates and professional document structure, is covered in Reports.

Interchange with ReqIF

For exchanging requirements with another tool, requirements export to ReqIF — the same standard used for import. This closes the loop with partners and customers: requirements can move out to their tools and updates can come back, all in a structured, lossless format rather than copied text.

Project bundles

For moving or archiving a larger body of work, a project can be exported as a bundle that captures its records together. This is useful for handing a project off, creating an archival copy, or transferring work between environments — the project travels as a coherent package rather than a scatter of separate exports.

Governed in, governed out

The throughline of this section is that import and export both respect the governed nature of your records. What comes in becomes controlled records on the thread; what goes out carries the structure and, where relevant, the evidence that makes it trustworthy. Import and export aren’t a side door around the system — they’re how the system connects to the world beyond it.