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Exporting assets from search-based widgets

If you expand a search-based widget, you can export assets of the corresponding search results. Before you export, you can apply additional filters to curate the selected assets. Depending on the asset count, the selected assets are either exported in a Microsoft Excel (.xlsx or .xls) file or compressed into a .zip archive.
To export assets from search-based widgets, perform the following steps:
    1On the dashboard, click the widget title or the widget items to expand the widget.
    2Click the Export assets icon at the top right corner.
    Image depicting the export button.
    The Export Dashboard Widget dialog box appears.
    Image depicting the Export Dashboard Widget dialog box.
    3In the Asset Types field, select the type of assets you want to export.
    Note: The asset types are preselected when the widget is configured. If you don't specify the asset type, then all assets of the widget are selected for export.
    4Optionally, apply an additional filter to the selected assets. The additional filter that you see varies and is based on the value configured for the Group by option of the selected assets:
    5Select the following check boxes to include additional information about the exported assets:
    6In the File Name field, enter a new file name or retain the system-generated file name.
    7Click Start Export to export the selected assets from the search results.
    This triggers an export job that you can monitor on the Job Status panel.
    Image depicting the Job Status panel.
    8Click Open Job on the Job Status panel to view the job.
    9After the export job is complete, click Download Export File to download the exported file.
    The image depicts the Download Export File option.
    The Job Status panel displays the job summary, details, and download link to download the exported file. The Job Summary section displays the list of asset types, number of sheets, and number of exported assets that are available in the downloaded Microsoft Excel file.
    Note: The predefined batch size of the exported file is 10,000 assets. If the results have more than 10,000 assets, the system compresses the export file as a .zip file. For example, if the search results have 90,000 assets, these assets are exported as a .zip file containing nine Microsoft Excel files, with each file containing 10,000 assets.
    10Alternatively, you can also check the status of your export job on the Job Monitoring page.
    The image depicts the Job Monitoring page.
    11After the export job is complete, click Action > Download Export File next to the corresponding job on the Job Monitoring page to download the exported file. Click Action > Download Log if you want to download the log file to know the job activities.
    Image depicting the action menu for a job. The menu displays two options that allow you to download the export file and to download the log file.
    12You can also click the Notification icon on the Home page to monitor the job status. Click the URL to open the corresponding job page to know the job status.
    Once the export job is complete, you'll receive notifications with a link to the corresponding job page in Data Governance and Catalog.
For more information on search-based widgets, see Search-based widget.