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Help required in downloading a .xlsx file from URL

Anthony02
5 - Atom

Hi all,

 

Please help me to download the .xlsx file available at the following link and save it as a tableau extract file.

 

ACNC 2018 AIS Dataset | Resources | data.gov.au - beta

 

When I am entering the link in the input text tool followed by download, the data is not downloaded instead just the file name is generated in the output file.

 

Please help

 

Thanks

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PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

I had never done this before, but this looks like it workssssss 😕 See a potential solution attached,

PhilipMannering_0-1616715194328.png

 

Anthony02
5 - Atom

Thanks a ton. yes it works. can you please clarify one more thing for me. If I want to transform the file before saving should I build additional steps before saving the extract

 

And what is the purpose of block until done

PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

That's correct. In fact you could put the additional steps in before writing the temp xlsx file or before writing out the hyper file.

 

The Block Until Done makes your the output stream 1 completes before output stream 2 begins. And this is necessary because we don't want to start reading in the temp xlsx file before it's been saved. So it just make sure things happen in the right order.

 

Thanks,

Philip

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