# Exporting Activities from SB/IA2

**URL:** <https://discussions.scouting.org/t/exporting-activities-from-sb-ia2/194317>\
**Category:** Using Scoutbook & Scoutbook Plus\
**Created:** [October 24, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/exporting-activities-from-sb-ia2/194317 "2020-10-24T15:05:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![CharlesCollings](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@CharlesCollings](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/CharlesCollings)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/exporting-activities-from-sb-ia2/194317/1 "2020-10-24T15:05:53Z")

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Fellow Scouters,

As AdvChair for dual Troops, the ability to run activity history reports in SB is crucial. The changeover to IA2 improved activity reporting - with a rough learning curve - but it limited our reporting ability to only a webpage and PDF report.

Some of us miss the prior capability to export the detailed history report to a CSV file for use outside of SB. In IA2, I found a hidden/obscure method to export an activity summary report to CSV. While we await the return of detailed export feature… I hope is useful to some of you.

Login to IA2, goto Roster, _do not select any scouts_, go across the gray heading bar to “Run Report”, then select “Activity Summary Report”, select desired range of dates, and run report.  
From there you can export the summary to a CSV file.

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**Author:** ![Matt.Johnson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/scouting/user_avatar/discussions.scouting.org/matt.johnson/32/23672_2.png) [@Matt.Johnson](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/Matt.Johnson)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/exporting-activities-from-sb-ia2/194317/2 "2020-10-25T20:49:43Z")

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> [@CharlesCollings](#):
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> From there you can export the summary to a CSV file.

This is awesome! I do a backup every month or two just in case.

This should be added to the Scoutbook menu for backups/exports. I know that this is IA2, but is all we have. That, or this should be added to a new IA2 backup menu.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/scouting/original/1X/66e9612584db5dbf76de17f00ad877998c0ba3d6.png) [@system](https://discussions.scouting.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://discussions.scouting.org/t/exporting-activities-from-sb-ia2/194317/3 "2020-11-01T20:49:44Z")

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