Downloading data assets from a project
You can download data assets from a project to your local system.
Important: Take care when you download assets. Collaborators can upload any type of file into a project, including files that have malware or other types of malicious code.
- Required permissions
- You must have the Editor or Admin role in the project to download an asset.
- Restriction
- You can't download a query-based data asset from the project.
Download a data asset
To download a data asset that is in the project's storage, select Download from the ACTION menu next to the asset name.
For an alternate method of downloading data assets for a project, select Files in the Data side panel. Checkmark the data asset and select Download from the ACTION menu in the side panel.
Download a connected data asset
To download a connected data asset, use Data Refinery to run a job that saves the file as the output of a Data Refinery flow. The output of the Data Refinery flow is a new CSV file in the project’s storage.
- Click the asset name to open it.
- Click Prepare data.
- From the Jobs menu, click Save and create a job. Enter a job name and click Create and Run.
- Go back to the Assets page. Refresh the page. By default, the downloadable asset is named table-name_shaped.csv.
- Choose Download from the ACTION menu next to the asset name.
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Parent topic: Projects