High Level
- Anytime the as user sees any data of a file entity. This means the file attached to the entity (not the entity metadata) and can include:
- Viewing a preview of the entity's file
- Downloading the entity's file.
- Anytime the user as sees any data cell in a table entity (not the table's metadata or schema) . The type of the column does not matter for this test (all columns are treated the same). This means the cells of the table (not the table's metadata or schema) and (viewing a cell of any column type is considered a "download"). Viewing a cell can include:
- Running any query (even a query of a single cell like 'select id from syn123 limit 1')
- Downloading the contents of the table as a CSV.
Low Level
There are many API calls that will meet the criteria above. Each time a new API is added we need to evaluate if it would be considered as a "download" using the criteria above.