# Export certain sections and specific information from a project based on property values **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Ideas\ **Tags:** import-export\ **Created:** [8 April 2021 20:40 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/export-certain-sections-and-specific-information-from-a-project-based-on-property-values/117006 "2021-04-08T20:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon67866548](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@anon67866548](https://forum.asana.com/u/anon67866548)\ **Post date:** [8 April 2021 20:40 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/export-certain-sections-and-specific-information-from-a-project-based-on-property-values/117006/1 "2021-04-08T20:40:46Z")
Sometimes our projects can be quite large in Asana. It would be nice if you can refine the project data you plan to export before initiating the export. A great way to do this would be to have another window appear once you click csv under export/print in the project dropdown. In that window you would select the sections you want to export and/or limit the amount of data you are exporting by putting in parameters around certain properties (ex: only pull tasks from this project that have a value of “high” for the property “priority.”). It would also be great to have some check boxes for sections so that you can select the sections you want to export in case someone without access asks for an update on a specific section of a project and you don’t want to invite them to individual tasks or the entire project. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\ **Post date:** [8 April 2021 20:48 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/export-certain-sections-and-specific-information-from-a-project-based-on-property-values/117006/2 "2021-04-08T20:48:26Z")
Welcome, @anon67866548, A couple of workarounds to offer until/if this becomes available: I think Asana expects you to do such refinement with Advanced Search, and then in the actions menu in the search results view you can do Export \> CSV If you haven’t ruled it out already, consider my: > **[Asana2Go / Asana Consulting @ Trilogi: Connect the dots...](https://www.trilogisoftware.com/asana2go.html)** > > Asana2Go: Free for most private and commercial use / Asana Services Partner consulting, training, integrations which lets you select arbitrary tasks in the project then generate just those selections into a CSV. Hope one of those helps, or both for different circumstances! Larry ---
**Author:** ![anon67866548](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@anon67866548](https://forum.asana.com/u/anon67866548)\ **Post date:** [8 April 2021 21:13 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/export-certain-sections-and-specific-information-from-a-project-based-on-property-values/117006/3 "2021-04-08T21:13:58Z")
Larry, This is fantastic! Thank you : ) Still hoping for this feature to become available but this will suffice in the interim. Have a good one! Regards, Cliff ---
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Scheirman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/brandon_scheirman/32/126522_2.png) [@Brandon\_Scheirman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Brandon_Scheirman)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2023 03:18 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/export-certain-sections-and-specific-information-from-a-project-based-on-property-values/117006/4 "2023-01-21T03:18:37Z")
I think this is a related request - @Larry_Berger_lpb let me know if you think this should be spun off - but I’d love to be able to determine which custom fields appear in the CSV. I still want to get an export of all tasks, which I think is different from what Cliff is looking for, but some custom fields in my project are irrelevant to the export. My proposed solution is similar to what Cliff suggests - click Export \> CSV, then a new dialog box pops up with a list of checkboxes representing every column that would normally appear in the CSV export. I can then check/uncheck only the columns that I want to have in my export. An added bonus would be if I could save a particular set of selections as a “saved custom export” or something so I can just run that instead of checking/unchecking things all over again the next time I want to run the export. I don’t think your proposed workaround of using the Advanced Search CSV export would help in my situation, as that only helps me export a subset of tasks, not the data associated with a given task. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2023 06:37 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/export-certain-sections-and-specific-information-from-a-project-based-on-property-values/117006/5 "2023-01-21T06:37:30Z")
Yes, @Brandon_Scheirman, I understand your request and agree it’s not the same thing as this thread’s topic so it would be good for you to create a new #Product Feedback topic so that could be voted on separately. Thanks, Larry ---
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Scheirman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/brandon_scheirman/32/126522_2.png) [@Brandon\_Scheirman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Brandon_Scheirman)\ **Post date:** [21 January 2023 07:08 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/export-certain-sections-and-specific-information-from-a-project-based-on-property-values/117006/6 "2023-01-21T07:08:05Z")
Thanks @Larry_Berger_lpb. New request created: > [@Provide more controls for exporting projects as CSV](https://forum.asana.com/t/provide-more-controls-for-exporting-projects-as-csv/313714): > > When I export projects as CSV, every single custom field always appears in the export, including old custom fields that I’ve since deleted from the project, so long as there are tasks that have values in those fields. I’d love to be able to determine which custom fields appear in the CSV, so I don’t have to do a bunch of cleanup in Excel every time I export. My proposed solution is this: when you click Export \> CSV, a new dialog box pops up with a list of checkboxes representing every column th…