Exporting Data

Suppose you have a Dataprep Recipe containing cleansed data that you want to save as a CSV file for sharing.

1. Open your Dataprep Recipe.

1. In the toolbar, click Write and select Delimited File from the drop-down.

1. This opens the Recipe Configuration – Write Delimited panel.

1. In this panel, you can configure the following options:

   • Append To File (If Exists): Choose whether to append new entries or overwrite the file.

   • File Path: Specify the file path (and name) for the output file. You can type the path directly or click the folder icon to browse.

   • Field Delimiter: Allows you to select a delimiter from the drop-down list for the fields.

   

   • Record Delimiter: Allows you to select the delimiter for the records in the fields. The choices available are carriage-return and line-feed combination, carriage-return and line-feed. You can also type the record delimiter of your choice instead of choosing the available options.

   
2. Click Apply to save settings or Cancel to discard.

3. Click Execute Dataprep Recipe to generate the file.

Alternatively, you can ask in Chat to write to a delimited file and then later instruct it to execute the recipe.

Suppose you have a Dataprep Recipe processing customer transaction and you want to log specific records for tracking or debugging.

1. Open your Dataprep Recipe.

1. In the toolbar, click Write and select Log File from the drop-down.

1. This opens the Recipe Configuration – Log panel.

1. In this panel, you can configure the following options:

   • File Path: Specify the file path (and name) for the output file. You can type the path directly or click the folder icon to browse.

   • Create a new file on each run: Check this box if you want a separate log file generated every time the recipe runs.

   • Log Level Type: Select which log entries to include:

     • All: Logs all messages.

     • Errors: Logs only error messages.

     • Warnings: Logs only warnings.

     • Error and Warnings: Logs both errors and warnings.

   • Stop Logging After: Specify the number of records after which logging should stop.

2. Click Apply to save settings or Cancel to discard.

3. Click Execute Dataprep Recipe to generate the file.

Alternatively, you can ask in Chat to write to a log file and then later instruct it to execute the recipe.