Note: If you had already added a Dropbox connection earlier, click the Saved data connection option and proceed to import. To learn more about Saved data connections, click here .
4. Authenticate your Dropbox account. You will need to authorize DataPrep to access your files when you do this for the first time.
7. If the file is password protected, enter the password, and click the right arrow.
8. Click the Import button.
9. Once you have completed importing data, Pipeline builder page opens and you can start applying transforms. You can also right-click the stage and choose the Prepare data option and prepare your data in the DataPrep Studio page. Click here to know more about the transforms.
2. Fill in the required details:
Choose folder : Choose the folder you want to import data from.
Include subfolders : You can also select the Include subfolders checkbox if you want to include subfolders while searching for a file.
Note: The file pattern match is a simple regex type match. For example, to fetch files with file names such as Sales_2022.csv , Sales_2023.csv , Sales_2024.csv , you can input the pattern Sales_.*
Similarly to fetch files such as PublicData1.csv , PublicData2.csv , PublicData3.csv , use Public.*
If you want to import a single file, then specify the pattern using the exact file name.
Eg: leads_jan_2022.*
Parse file as : Choose the required extension to parse the file. If your file format is not a commonly used one, you can use this option to parse the file into one of the following formats before importing the data into a readable format. The available formats are CSV, TSV, JSON, XML, and TXT.
SEE ALSO
Import data from cloud databases
Import data from saved data connections
What are the other cloud storage options available in Zoho DataPrep?
How to export data to Dropbox?
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