Export or download a snapshot of current admin configuration
Provide a method, by web UI or by API, to download or export a human-readable comprehensive snapshot of the current admin configuration.
Problems this would solve:
1. When working with Box Support, admins now may have to self-report current configuration state. This process is subject to human error. Instead, an exported snapshot would allow admins to provide an inherently valid representation of the current state.
2. Today, Box Reporting can produce records of change events, but for the admin tracking these, there's no record of the prior state. With this new feature, admins could archive point-in-time snapshots of the state in commodity version control systems. This would provide the ability to "time travel" to inspect any prior state for which a snapshot exists.
This snapshot should capture all settings and text box input within Enterprise Settings and also for additionally-licensed products like Box Shield.
Optionally, allow export of settings on just a single tab.
Optionally, if Box allows the import and commitment of prior snapshots, this would allow for quick reversion of even complex changes as long as a pre-change snapshot is available. One way to implement this would be to prompt for human confirmation before any individual updates are committed based on such an import.
This idea may be related to https://pulse.box.com/forums/909778-help-shape-the-future-of-box/suggestions/46585150-export-and-import-admin-console-configuration-via
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