# Problem with saving 'Extract Selection' filter into a macros.
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-with-saving-extract-selection-filter-into-a-macros/2242
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 18, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-with-saving-extract-selection-filter-into-a-macros/2242 "2019-07-18T08:55:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@e-kolosov](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/e-kolosov)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-with-saving-extract-selection-filter-into-a-macros/2242/1 "2019-07-18T08:55:40Z")
Hello.
I used ‘Start trace’ tool to create a macros but it is not working correctly for ‘Extract Selection’ filter. For more details see the video attached below. Is it a bug?
[extract\_selection-2019-07-18\_11.35.10.mkv](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e7c2245742a1eceaf0481a0dc02816f7cd2b1ea5.mkv) (3.0 MB)
[extract\_selection.py](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2c2db4d9cc46774dfef0a0b35bd48f63b251d5c4.py) (1.1 KB)
Thank you very much in advance.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-with-saving-extract-selection-filter-into-a-macros/2242/2 "2019-07-18T13:55:59Z")
Tracing selections is not really supported right now. Fixing that is slated for ParaView 5.8.
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### Author:  [@e-kolosov](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/e-kolosov)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-with-saving-extract-selection-filter-into-a-macros/2242/3 "2019-07-18T14:02:44Z")
Thank you Cory for your reply.