How to use Save Content To Download Cache Action and the Download service (with example)?
| FIRST CREATED ON 23 Apr 2026 I AUTHOR Emma Camacho |
The first thing to do is to add a Download Service. In the Management Console go to Settings > Server > Service Endpoints > Create Endpoint to add it.
In this example, the name of the Service is downloadservice.
The Download Service was introduced in version 3.6.5.
In the Task a Report is created and the Save Report Document To Download Cache Action is used to save the Report in Memory, which can be afterwards retrieved using the ID specified in the Action.
This Save Report Document To Download Cache Action was introduced in version 3.5.21.
The Save Report Document To Download Cache Action looks like this
We recommend to use a composite-ID, for example, a combination of a secret and the ID.
The file can be downloaded once with the following link:
Report:
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