# Custom export question

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/custom-export-question/504>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [March 7, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/custom-export-question/504 "2017-03-07T00:48:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tfreed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@tfreed](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/tfreed)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/custom-export-question/504/1 "2017-03-07T00:48:21Z")

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I would like to set up JabRef to output to a Google Sheet in a specific order.

It should look like the following tabs articles & locations in this Google Sheet. The ‘test’ tab is what I get on export currently.

[https://docs.google.com/a/sig-gis.com/spreadsheets/d/1WNEkKj1BAHAZ3-SlvhJEy2vlmzelaBGOAZJdCFCwe4A/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/a/sig-gis.com/spreadsheets/d/1WNEkKj1BAHAZ3-SlvhJEy2vlmzelaBGOAZJdCFCwe4A/edit?usp=sharing)

## Thank you

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**Author:** ![tfreed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@tfreed](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/tfreed)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/custom-export-question/504/2 "2017-03-07T03:14:35Z")

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As a clarification, I’ll need a comma delimited file in a particular order. I actually need 2 .csv files exported in slightly different orientations.

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/custom-export-question/504/3 "2017-03-07T22:37:14Z")

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Hi,

I can not access your google drive document and I am not sure if I fully understand your problem, but all export filters can be customized using the layout files. The definition for CSV files resides inside the jar file in:  
`resource\layout\openoffice\`  
Just copy that somewhere, modify it to your needs and you can create a custom export filter on base of this.  
The help page for custom export filters gives a good overview:

[http://help.jabref.org/en/CustomExports](http://help.jabref.org/en/CustomExports)

Regards  
Christoph