# How to Export a Schedule?

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-export-a-schedule/2915>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [January 13, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-export-a-schedule/2915 "2016-01-13T07:09:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alisder\_Brown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/alisder_brown/32/14995_2.png) [@Alisder\_Brown](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Alisder_Brown)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-export-a-schedule/2915/1 "2016-01-13T07:09:33Z")

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Hey All So, i’m looking to export my already created Schedules in my Revit project out to Excel (preferably in batch) I know i could create definitions to get the same data my schedules are getting and combine them in a list and push them out that way, but i already have 100+ Schedules in the project and i assumed it would be a simple task to just push each schedule out to Excel, but it is proving annoying!I had a look through the forums and cant find much on what i’m trying to do. I downloaded the bumblebee package also but cant find a way to have it export specific schedule views :S Any help is appreciated Thanks in advance 🙂

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**Author:** ![Dimitar\_Venkov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/dimitar_venkov/32/2068_2.png) [@Dimitar\_Venkov](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Dimitar_Venkov)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-export-a-schedule/2915/2 "2016-01-14T09:18:25Z")

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Revit does not support exporting to excel. The only available option is to export schedules as delimited text.

You could explore the following work-flow:

Create a custom “ViewScheduleExportOptions” and override the default “FieldDelimiter” value:

[http://revitapisearch.com/html/5a765ce4-da82-c9fd-cd6d-289df73c6b29.htm](http://revitapisearch.com/html/5a765ce4-da82-c9fd-cd6d-289df73c6b29.htm)

You can then proceed to export the schedule with the new export options:

[http://revitapisearch.com/html/8ba18e73-6daf-81b6-d15b-e4aa90bc8c22.htm](http://revitapisearch.com/html/8ba18e73-6daf-81b6-d15b-e4aa90bc8c22.htm)

Finally you’ll need to rename the file from it’s default \*.txt extension to a \*.csv extension. You’ll hopefully end up with something that excel can recognize and open automatically, albeit not a native xls file.

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**Author:** ![Alisder\_Brown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/alisder_brown/32/14995_2.png) [@Alisder\_Brown](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Alisder_Brown)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-export-a-schedule/2915/3 "2016-01-14T09:45:44Z")

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Thanks a lot Dimitar I will take a look at this workflow and see if it works for our office:) I would have imagined that i could just tap into the same functionality that some addons use to select all my project schedules and simply export them to Excel. I might have to look into using an addon instead, assuming my office will let me haha

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**Author:** ![David\_Koch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@David\_Koch](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/David_Koch)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-export-a-schedule/2915/4 "2016-01-31T20:53:01Z")

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If you are looking to have fully formatted Excel files, then perhaps an add-on is the way to go.

You can batch export Schedules to delimited text files, which can then be opened in Excel. Dimitar posted a Python Script for exporting a single Schedule; I extended that to work with a list of Schedules and included it in a graph that gathers all of the Schedules in a Revit Project file. You can find [that discussion here](http://dynamobim.org/forums/topic/export-schedules/#post-37715).