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just used the export hook for the first time. took a bit of time to figure out what it was giving me, how to best modify, and what I needed to send back in order to complete the export. but it worked pretty smoothly.

the one thing that is lacking is any obvious way to limit the hook. it's unlikely you'd want to run the same modification across every export.

i think the best option would be to pass the value of the saved mapping (if it exists) to the hook, or "primary fields" if the default option is used. that way i could create a mapping "XYZ" and decide that when it's used, I modify the export accordingly.

in my case, i needed to export membership values with a contact export for a specific mapping. so i really want to limit to a specific saved mapping.

i could see value re: the primary export -- the default set of fields is really cluttered with a lot of stuff that's rarely used. if i could limit the hook to just that export selection, i could decide what fields are exported by default for a given installation.

i think in this case, we only have to go back one step to the form which triggers the BAO query. we could add a param to the method passed to the query and add it to the hook.

but i understand if you're looking to think about it in the bigger picture