Exporting Storyline Variables

SO COOL!

Clever. Looks like the code walks the project variable dialog list (which looks to be a listbox control) programmatically, pulling out each item individually into a file across the system clipboard.

Thanks, Veronica!

Brian is correct, it literally automates what you would do manually:

1. Open the Variables dialog box

2. Highlight the variable

3. Click the edit icon

4. (this is the only tricky part) Reads the form labels and values to grab the name, type and inital value. Copy the values.

5. Clicks on the usage number, and grabs all the instances where the variable is used.

6. Finally, it writes all this info into two files: one with all the usage info, and one as a csv for Excel.

In the Excel file, you can add description/explanation to each variable for documentation purposes. Let's say add new variables or update their value in SL. Now, if you run this again, it recreates these files but keeps the description, so you won't lose it.  

If you want to give it a try, here's the download info:

Here’s the drop box link to the file. The first link is a self-extracting .exe file. After downlading it, you can run and creates the necessary files.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9onq4w79b1lrql9/xporterinstall.EXE?dl=0

If your system/firewall doesn’t play nice with .exe files, you can also download the zip version below. In that case, you need to unzip the file manually.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o5qls3hg6k6clsa/xporter.zip?dl=0

After unzipping or installing the files, there’s a README.txt in the folder. Read it before you try xporter. It might not work out of the box if your Storyline looks different. You need to “teach” the script what to look for. The readme files explains how.

Best way to test it out is creating a new Storyline and adding three variables (one for each type).

Hi all, looking for some help here. I'm using SL3. I have downloaded the zip file and extracted the content. On reading the readme file, I created copies of the four icons as stated, overwriting the originals. The colour for the highlight.png is the lighter blue (RGB=175,214,241), highlighting the whole line, not the darker blue (RGB=0,120,215), highlighting the variable name only, for example, is that correct? Please note the png is the colour only, no text and is 25pxx20px.

I then ran exporterInstall.EXE and, after creating the folder where I wanted the install to go, pointed the navigation to this new folder. I edited the .ini file to set SL=3.

Now, this is where I get stuck. I can't seem to work out how to then create the excel spreadsheet and notepad document. There is another .exe file in this new folder along with the icons I created. The other .exe file, export_sl.exe, when run throws up an error saying 'Error: Missing "}" Line# ---> 019: { The program will exit.' And if I click on the variables in the already open variable list, also clicking on the Use Count for the number and each time clicking the 'Edit' icon, nothing gets generated.

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? Probably something obvious, but I've gone a bit snow blind!

Thanks

This is OLD thread. If you're still interested in exporting variables, see this new thread: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/storyline-variable-documentation