# Viewing keys - import/export/walletnotify

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/viewing-keys-import-export-walletnotify/33178>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [April 12, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/viewing-keys-import-export-walletnotify/33178 "2019-04-12T18:53:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ChileBob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/chilebob/32/26546_2.png) [@ChileBob](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ChileBob)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/viewing-keys-import-export-walletnotify/33178/1 "2019-04-12T18:53:08Z")

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Can I check the current status? I’m told this is not yet fully working but the commands are in 2.0.4. (z\_importviewingkey, z\_exportviewingkey)

I’m trying to get walletnotify to trigger on transactions for watchonly zaddrs.

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**Author:** ![garethtdavies](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/garethtdavies/32/210_2.png) [@garethtdavies](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/garethtdavies)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/viewing-keys-import-export-walletnotify/33178/2 "2019-04-13T16:05:51Z")

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Here is the issue on Github [Implement Sapling viewing keys · Issue #3060 · zcash/zcash · GitHub](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/3060)

Those z\_import/export… commands work with Sprout but you’ll get something along the lines of “Sapling address are not supported” if trying to use them on a Sapling address.

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**Author:** ![ChileBob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/chilebob/32/26546_2.png) [@ChileBob](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ChileBob)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/viewing-keys-import-export-walletnotify/33178/3 "2019-04-13T16:16:04Z")

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Thanks! That explains whats going on 🙂

I’ll keep an eye #3060 for updates & test my stuff with Sprout for now. I imagine they’ll get to this fairly soon as its one of ZECs more ‘zecy features’.

Edit: Looks like they’re working on this already in #3822 🙂

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**Author:** ![cryptoenthusiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@cryptoenthusiast](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/cryptoenthusiast)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/viewing-keys-import-export-walletnotify/33178/4 "2019-05-03T17:06:29Z")

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I’ve been wondering this, too.

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**Author:** ![cryptoenthusiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@cryptoenthusiast](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/cryptoenthusiast)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/viewing-keys-import-export-walletnotify/33178/5 "2019-05-03T17:11:05Z")

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Seems wild that this is supposed to be a main feature of Zcash, and yet barely anyone realizes it does not exist yet.