# Generate CSV questions

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-csv-questions/79694>\
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**Created:** [January 31, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-csv-questions/79694 "2025-01-31T17:57:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-csv-questions/79694/1 "2025-01-31T17:57:41Z")

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Only ‘basic’ columns are exported via Generate CSV. Do UniqueIDs get exported (I saw that the RowID got exported in my test)? I suspect they resolve to a basic/text field. Does this also include LookUps that resolve to a ‘basic’ column? Weird that the Generate CSV shows all the columns to select from not just the basic ones.

Is the below the “will be exported columns” via Generate CSV (this is from the Type/Basic menu-select found in the data builder when adding a new column)?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-csv-questions/79694/2 "2025-02-01T01:14:40Z")

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> [@MattLB](#):
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> Only ‘basic’ columns are exported via Generate CSV. Do UniqueIDs get exported (I saw that the RowID got exported in my test)?

It’s included by default but you can uncheck it.

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And no, you can add computed columns to your CSV.

> [@MattLB](#):
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> Does this also include LookUps that resolve to a ‘basic’ column?

I’m not sure what you mean here. Lookups are not basic columns. Do you mean columns that look like text? Then yes.

> [@MattLB](#):
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> Is the below the “will be exported columns” via Generate CSV (this is from the Type/Basic menu-select found in the data builder when adding a new column)?

I think relations & arrays can not be exported, things that “look like text” can be exported? What do you see is not working as expected?

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**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-csv-questions/79694/3 "2025-02-01T15:46:22Z")

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> [@ThinhDinh](#):
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> I think relations & arrays can not be exported, things that “look like text” can be exported? What do you see is not working as expected?

Thanks Thinh. I was looking at the new Trebuchet method which would be a Multiple Files column as the extract for the CSV and wanted to be sure it would fall under Basic. Hunted around and found a @Robert_Petitto where he created a MF column for a CSV export.

Was trying to save some search time 🙂 to verify what is can be exported or not under the definition ‘Basic’.

Given that Glides shows ALL columns instead of just ‘Basic’ columns in the Generate CSV I was wondering if that meant something…guess not.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-csv-questions/79694/4 "2025-02-02T01:22:38Z")

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> [@MattLB](#):
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> Given that Glides shows ALL columns instead of just ‘Basic’ columns in the Generate CSV I was wondering if that meant something…guess not.

I don’t have an exhausted list here, but I just try a multiple files column, and a lookup column, both don’t show up in Generate CSV.

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**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-csv-questions/79694/5 "2025-02-02T14:36:27Z")

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Thanks Thinh! Lookup was expected to fail, multiple files is a surprise.