Question 1

What do teams do with Plain data in Cloud Storage?

Accepted Answer

Most commonly they register it as external tables and query it in place, which avoids loading support data into a warehouse just to answer occasional questions about it. The other common use is retention: keeping a full conversation and message history under your own lifecycle rules rather than depending on what the support tool retains. Both work well because the export is scheduled ETL, so the bucket reflects current state rather than a stale snapshot.

Question 2

Which format preserves Plain's nested fields?

Accepted Answer

Parquet and the JSON formats. Plain nests meaningfully, with label arrays and thread custom fields arriving as arrays of typed objects, and Parquet preserves that typed nested data wherever the type is supported. JSON and JSON Lines keep the arrays and objects as written. CSV is the format to be careful with: nested values are JSON encoded into a single cell, which is fine for archival but means anything reading the file has to decode them again.

Question 3

What can be exported from Plain?

Accepted Answer

A fixed catalogue rather than anything discovered per workspace. Customers, companies, tenants, threads, users, tiers and label types cover core records. Messages, notes, message attachments, message components, thread links, thread timeline events and thread discussions cover conversation detail. Seven prebuilt reports are also available, including daily new and open thread counts broken out by label, channel and priority, agent daily activity, and SLA compliance percentage by label.

Question 4

What is needed to connect Plain?

Accepted Answer

A machine user API key from your Plain workspace. There is no OAuth flow and no scope picker on the Polytomic side, since permissions are governed by what the key is granted in Plain itself. The key is validated on save with a lightweight identity query, so a bad credential fails immediately rather than at the first sync. The usual first attempt mistake is pasting the word Bearer along with the key, or using a token type other than a machine user key.

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