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Adding a download button

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- [Instructor] So whatever you do with your data and your visualization and your dashboard, no matter how good it is, no matter how much interaction you've put in, how well it works, how much you've thought about every single detail to make it the best dashboard you possibly can, and you've published it, sooner or later, somebody's going to want to have to download that dashboard. It's just one of those things. They're either going to want to get a screenshot of it or maybe some of the data from it, export it to a PDF or something like that. Now we can either kind of fight against that or we can give them a simple button to allow them to do that. And one of the things we can do is we can add a download button to our dashboard to simplify that process. There's other workarounds of getting the information that we need out, images, that sort of thing. When we go onto the server, you can download each individual part, but why not control what they can actually do and give them a button to…

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