# Save in a data tool's own format

Publish / file

A variant of [Write another file format](https://meridian.online/operations/write-another-file-format).

Write a table, project or object to the native or serialised file format of a data tool.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/write-another-file-format/save-in-a-data-tools-own-format>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#write-another-file-format)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Alteryx Designer: [`Profile Output`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/behavior-analysis/profile-output-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Export dataset`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:exportdataset) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Data set output`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/next/pipeline/transforms/datasetoutput.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Serialize To File`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/serialize-to-file.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Table Writer`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*u5T3zjllCMyfRM5x?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`OpenRefine project archive to file`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/exporting#export-a-project) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Serialize to file`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Polars: [`DataFrame.serialize`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/dataframe/miscellaneous.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Store`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/data_access/store.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Store to File`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/data_access/external_store.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`vds (saver)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/loaders/vds.py#L16) (read 2026-09-23)