title: How to export Quality Profile rules into Excel
body: <p>We are using SonarQube 4.5.1 for our projects and are planning to provide list of rules activation/deactivation to end users.</p>
  
  <p>What is best way to export/import within SonarQube in Excel?</p>
  
  <p>There is option of backup in Quality Profile but it did not export description.
  I looked directly in the database with rules table, but due to some HTML tag this is not working for delimited with semicolon.</p>
  
  <p>I would also like to know how we can add customized rules to existing set of rules. What is the procedure?</p>