# Outliner and dynamic components

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/outliner-and-dynamic-components/57808>\
**Category:** Dynamic Components\
**Created:** [December 17, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/outliner-and-dynamic-components/57808 "2017-12-17T15:46:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![vmsremy66](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/vmsremy66/32/27432_2.png) [@vmsremy66](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/vmsremy66)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/outliner-and-dynamic-components/57808/1 "2017-12-17T15:46:50Z")

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Hello.  
i am often working with outliner window and dynamic component options window  
is there a simple way of having an excel or csv ou txt export of the contents of the outliner with only the parameters defines in the dynamic component options window?

thank you for your time

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**Author:** ![john\_drivenupthewall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@john\_drivenupthewall](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/john_drivenupthewall)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/outliner-and-dynamic-components/57808/2 "2017-12-17T16:05:32Z")

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have you tried a custom ‘File’ \>\> ‘Generate Report’?

john

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**Author:** ![vmsremy66](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/vmsremy66/32/27432_2.png) [@vmsremy66](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/vmsremy66)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/outliner-and-dynamic-components/57808/3 "2017-12-17T16:08:30Z")

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no i didn’t. i’m on sketchup 2014, so the report is very full of unexpected infomations for me…

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**Author:** ![pcmoor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/pcmoor/32/3427_2.png) [@pcmoor](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/pcmoor)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/outliner-and-dynamic-components/57808/4 "2017-12-18T11:24:56Z")

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If those of us that have later versions go off line, when we run the generate report, we get the same dialogue and data as you do.  
It is possible to sort this in Excel using a VBA script, however you would need some handles to collect the right data and purge all the lower level rubbish.  
Say if you use the Name attribute for any level that has information, placed information in description, then quantities in summary, use layers …

![Capture](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/0/8/08899f61ec36211b49dd28b1834d1fa9e2244b44.PNG)

the first filter would delete all none named entities then another sort and sum up

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**Author:** ![DanRathbun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/danrathbun/32/500_2.png) [@DanRathbun](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DanRathbun)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/outliner-and-dynamic-components/57808/5 "2017-12-18T12:33:34Z")

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> [@vmsremy66](#):
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> i’m on sketchup 2014, so the [_Generate_] report is very full of unexpected infomations for me…

I would suggest you download and try SU2016 at the least. It has the new cloud report generator that you can control much better.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/f/2/f2a121500b085ed60806607a82720b092d800bb3.png) [@system](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/outliner-and-dynamic-components/57808/6 "2018-03-20T04:34:09Z")

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