# How to export all details Collections

**URL:** <https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-export-all-details-collections/1419>\
**Category:** Help me!\
**Created:** [December 3, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-export-all-details-collections/1419 "2020-12-03T09:55:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![aurell04b](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/aurell04b/32/1159_2.png) [@aurell04b](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/aurell04b)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-export-all-details-collections/1419/1 "2020-12-03T09:55:49Z")

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hi,

I recently started working on forest for my job and I would have liked to know if there was a way that would allow me to export all the fields of a collection. Currently when I export a collection it returns me a CSV table with only the visible fields but all the hidden fields of its not exported. I would like to do an export which would allow me to retrieve an array with all the fields of my collection even those hidden.

I’m working on the In-App Ruby on Rail version of forest admin.

Thank you in advance,

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**Author:** ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-export-all-details-collections/1419/2 "2020-12-03T10:29:19Z")

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Hi @aurell04b !  
Right now you can only make those fields visible and then export them, we don’t support exporting hidden fields because they are usually hidden for a reason 🙂

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**Author:** ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-export-all-details-collections/1419/3 "2020-12-03T10:29:44Z")

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I’ll push this as a feature request to our product team !

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**Author:** ![aurell04b](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/aurell04b/32/1159_2.png) [@aurell04b](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/aurell04b)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 9:27am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-export-all-details-collections/1419/5 "2020-12-15T09:27:20Z")

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Hello,  
First thank you !  
And will it be possible to do this by going through a smart action?

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**Author:** ![anon90145840](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@anon90145840](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon90145840)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-export-all-details-collections/1419/6 "2020-12-15T15:27:09Z")

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Hello @aurell04b

This is possible, yes. You can find an example of how to do it in our [documentation](https://docs.forestadmin.com/woodshop/how-tos/export-related-data-as-csv). The example is in JavaScript, but you should be able to achieve the same thing in Ruby.