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name: watson-assistant-migrate-intents-entities
title: Migrating intents and entities
description: You can migrate your intents and entities from the classic experience to watsonx Assistant.
last-updated: 2024-12-03
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# Migrating intents and entities
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You can migrate your intents and entities from the classic experience to watsonx Assistant.
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## Downloading intents
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You can download intents to a CSV file, so you can then upload and reuse them as actions or example phrases in watsonx Assistant.

1. Go to the **Intents** page.

1. Select the intents that you want to download, and then click the **Download** icon ![Download icon](images/download-icon.png).

    If you plan to use a downloaded intent file to upload example phrases for a specific action, download only a single intent. In watsonx Assistant, only one intent can be uploaded per action.
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1. Specify the name and location in which to store the CSV file that is generated, and click **Save**.

You can now perform the following tasks to migrate information to watsonx Assistant:
- Upload intents as actions. For more information, see [Uploading intents as actions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/watson-assistant?topic=watson-assistant-upload-download-actions&format=markdown#upload-download-actions-upload-intents).
- Upload the examples from a single intent as example phrases for a specific action. For more information, see [Uploading phrases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/watson-assistant?topic=watson-assistant-understand-questions&format=markdown#understand-questions-uploading-examples).

## Downloading entities
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You can download a number of entities to a CSV file, so you can then upload and reuse them as saved customer responses in watsonx Assistant.

1. Go to the **Entities** page.

1. Select the entities that you want to download, and then click the **Download** icon ![Download icon](images/download-icon.png).

1. Specify the name and location in which to store the CSV file that is generated, and click **Save**.

You can now upload the entities as saved customer responses in watsonx Assistant. For more information, see [Uploading saved customer responses](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/watson-assistant?topic=watson-assistant-collect-info&format=markdown#uploading-saved-customer-response).