Enable user data exports

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As part of your user data management approach, you may want to allow users to export their own data from your site. You will need to enable the following permissions and settings:

  1. Change role permissions (if you do this with Authenticated user it will apply to everyone) to set the following capabilities to Allow:
    • View user data configuration: totara/userdata:viewinfo
    • Export own user data: totara/userdata:exportself
  2. Go to Quick-access menu > Users > Related pages > User data management > Settings and enable the Allow users to export their own data option.
  3. Create an export type and ensure that Export of own user data is enabled.

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