Why does "Export Data to File" automation task not show any data table to export?

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Article ID: KB0078495

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Products Versions
Spotfire Automation Services 7.5 and higher

Description

While using "Export Data to File" automation task within Spotfire Analyst >>Automation Services Job Builder, the "Data table" drop-down might not show any data table name to export the data from. This is shown below.

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The reason for this behavior is because the Analysis file needs to be loaded first in order to select a data table for the task to export.
 

Environment

All supported environments

Resolution

To select the data table that needs to be exported to a file, load the data first using "Open Analysis from Library" task as shown below.

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The data tables will now be available to be selected so that the data can be exported to a file, as shown below.

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Issue/Introduction

Why does "Export Data to File" automation task not show any data table to export?