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I had filed this as a feature request on the issue tracking system several years ago, long before this forum existed. I am curious if I am the only one for whom this feature is useful, or if there are others who would like it?

It would be very useful to be able to export custom data groups, profiles, relationship types, location types, etc. in a way that they could be imported into another instance of CiviCRM. There are several ways this could be used.

1) The Freedom and Justice Party of Illinois creates a set of custom data fields and profiles it uses for a Barn Raising fund raiser. Its counter part in Northern CA, wants to run that same event and would like to be able to import this data.

2) In order to test a new release, one needs to replicate certain conditions on a sandbox system. Being able to add one profile or data group at a time would make this process easier.

The issue (CRM-1795) you're mentioning has been closed with "Won't fix" resolution - it means that it's not on the priorities list and won't be implemented without external contribution, at least not in near future. Please consider providing a patch that would provide this kind of functionality.

Yes, I know that it was closed. I posted this here to see if others were interested in this functionality. It was closed because there did not appear to be interest from others, in the issue tracker only world. I expect that more users (in particular, end users) read these posts than read the issue tracker. If I am the only one interested in this, then I will not waste time on a general solution, if there are others who would find this useful that would be good to know.

/carmi