Google Tag Manager has a really useful “export” function, which we can use if we want to;
- Copy our Tag Manager setup to a new account
- Analyse our existing setup with a tool like my tag mapper.
How to export from Tag Manager
- Choose your Tag Manager container
- Click “admin”
- Click “export”
- Choose the container or version you want to export (default is best)
- Use the settings Tag Manager offers you to make sure you export everything
Choose your tag manager container
![](https://www.therobinlord.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot_14_11_2020__11_15-1-1024x195.png)
Click “admin”
![](https://www.therobinlord.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot_14_11_2020__11_14-1.png)
Click “export”
![](https://www.therobinlord.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot_14_11_2020__11_17-1.png)
Choose the container version to export
Default is best
![](https://www.therobinlord.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Google_Tag_Manager-1.png)
Use the settings Tag Manager offers you to export everything
![](https://www.therobinlord.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot_14_11_2020__11_20-1-1024x264.png)
My tag mapper
It’s easy to lose track of how complicated your Google Tag Manager (GTM) account has become. The right is a visualisations of a semi-complex Tag Manager setup.
As a result – it can often be hard to keep track of what you might break when you are making changes in Tag Manager.
![Google Tag Manager connections visualisation](http://www.therobinlord.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/graph-5.png)
![](https://www.therobinlord.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/graph-9-2-1024x561.png)
My Tag Mapper tool lets you select parts of your Tag Manager account and see;
- If you change this thing, what could you break? (What other things are depending on this?)
- If you find out this thing has broken – what other parts of your setup could be the culprit? (What things is this depending on?)
For more on how to use the tool – head over to the Tag Mapper page.
![](https://www.therobinlord.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/graph-10-1.png)