How to download data

What does this guide solve?

This guide will show you how to enable your dashboard’s viewer to download data

Download data

There are several different ways to let a user download data. This guide will show you three ways to do it.

Sidebar Download

sources:
  penguins:
    type: file
    tables:
      penguins: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2020/2020-07-28/penguins.csv

layouts:
  - title: Table
    source: penguins
    download: csv
    views:
      - type: download
        format: csv
      - type: table
        table: penguins
        download: csv

View Download

sources:
  penguins:
    type: file
    tables:
      penguins: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2020/2020-07-28/penguins.csv

layouts:
  - title: Table
    source: penguins
    download: csv
    views:
      - type: download
        format: csv
      - type: table
        table: penguins
        download: csv

Table Download

sources:
  penguins:
    type: file
    tables:
      penguins: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2020/2020-07-28/penguins.csv

layouts:
  - title: Table
    source: penguins
    download: csv
    views:
      - type: download
        format: csv
      - type: table
        table: penguins
        download: csv

Note

The YAML specification for the example is the same, but the line used to create the specific download button is emphasized in the code and highlighted with a red box in the preview of the dashboard.