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Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 12 May 2021 · last reported 21 November 2023
What's going wrong
Users with exported text, such as shortcodes, labels, or sentences with numbers, want to pull out one value, the second occurrence, or the last word.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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