# Printing out workflow
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [November 14, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757 "2006-11-14T07:15:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757/1 "2006-11-14T07:15:21Z")
Interestingly enough, FinalBuilder is actually pretty good at describing a workflow - all the steps one goes through to produce an end product. It’s probably even worthwhile adding in comments like “Now Bill makes an entry in the yellow workbook” or whatever…
However: It doesn’t seem possibly to print this workflow out. It would be really great if that was possible, and especially if it could (optionally) substitute in action lists wherever they get called, so you could see the complete start-to-finish workflow to build the product from scratch. Other export options like images, web pages etc would obviously be handy too…
Steve
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### Author:  [@rod\_prdsoftware](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/rod_prdsoftware)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2006, 7:20am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757/2 "2006-11-14T07:20:46Z")
Yes, I’ve thought about this also. The ability for FB to produce a document of what it’s doing in a human-readable format. Perhaps it could scrape all of the comments out of each action and then product a document in a formatted structure to show what’s going on.
I’ve noticed that when you save FB in text format, it’s just a big XML document, so the document is already there…albeit a hard-to-read one.
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### Author:  [@raoul](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/raoul)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757/3 "2006-11-14T08:00:35Z")
Have you seen the create project summary option under the project menuy.
This should get would you are after. If not, you can always change the default xslt.
HTH
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### Author:  [@rod\_prdsoftware](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/rod_prdsoftware)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757/4 "2006-11-14T11:07:30Z")
Ah, yes…that’s exactly what I’m after. Thanks again Raoul.
…Could’ve sworn that wasn’t there yesterday 😉
Well done again FB.
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 12:18pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757/5 "2006-11-15T12:18:20Z")
and if anyone wants to contribute a better xslt file that outputs the project in a different/nicer/prettier/funkier format then please share 🙂
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### Author:  [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757/6 "2006-11-16T03:38:08Z")
Have you seen the create project summary option under the project menuy.
This should get would you are after. If not, you can always change the default xslt.
Thanks, that's nice - if a little confusingly named? However, for me it seems a bit buggy, the "Actions" column is always empty, so my main script just looks like
Actions | Is Enabled | Has Script | Ignore Failure
| True | | False
| True | | False
| True | | False
| True | | False
| True | | False
| True | | False
| True | | False
...
Same is true for my other action lists. The "Action List Summary" is ok, though.
I'll investigate the scary world of XSLT's next...:)
Steve
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757/7 "2006-11-16T04:15:07Z")
oops, that’s a bug… will investigate asap.
.t8
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/printing-out-workflow/3757/8 "2006-11-16T07:02:01Z")
Fixed - sorry about that!
[https://www.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/500/FB500\_69.exe](https://www.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/500/FB500_69.exe)