# CSV\_EXPORT adapter - variable names

**URL:** <http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/t/csv-export-adapter-variable-names/1372>\
**Category:** openHistorian\
**Created:** [February 6, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/t/csv-export-adapter-variable-names/1372 "2025-02-06T19:38:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![leticia\_acs](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@leticia\_acs](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/u/leticia_acs)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/t/csv-export-adapter-variable-names/1372/1 "2025-02-06T19:38:20Z")

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Hello!

I am using CSV\_ADAPTER to store my measurements, is there a way for me to change the names of these measurements in the ID colum? To make the interpretation easier.

 ![image](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2002a24c8a97730bca739e1d0cc8872dfb14bad2.png)

Thank You!

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**Author:** ![StephenCWills](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/user_avatar/discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/stephencwills/32/20_2.png) [@StephenCWills](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/u/StephenCWills)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](http://discussions.gridprotectionalliance.org/t/csv-export-adapter-variable-names/1372/2 "2025-02-07T14:39:27Z")

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Hello leticia\_acs,

Unfortunately, that adapter has a simplistic design to make it easy for the `CsvImportAdapter` to load the data on another system. I didn’t add any options to adjust the format of the CSV files produced by the adapter.

One thing you could do would be to run `SELECT * FROM ActiveMeasurement` against your configuration database and export the results as CSV so you can load it into a spreadsheet. Then you may be able to use Excel features to join the two CSV files (use the `SignalID` column of `ActiveMeasurement`), thereby adding more information to your export from the `ActiveMeasurement` view.

Thanks,  
Stephen