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Originally Posted by Dave_S
"Workaround" is a term used for bugs, and not for missing desired features.
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In the software projects I work on we use the term for both cases, but who knows, may be different from community to community.
So for instance an user might ask me "how do I get this report exported to Excel" and I might tell him "we do not support Excel export but you could export it to CSV and then import in Excel". So it is a workaround, even though the lack of Excel export is not a bug in our system.
A workaround in my view is an alternative way to avoid an issue. An issue may be a bug, a missing feature, or anything in between (the line between a bug and a missing feature is not always very clear, anyway).