Exporting Storyline Variables

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.