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Tip
Drag-and-drop a template from the Connect resources in the Configuration Components
pane on a process to add this task or one of the other OL Connect tasks that create
content from a template: a "Create Email Content" on page600 task, a "Create Preview
PDF" on page611 task, or a "Create Web Content" on the previous page task.
Input
This task must receive either a valid Record ID or a JSON object.
Record ID
A valid Record ID can be retrieved from various data sources. By default, when the Record ID
input option is selected, the metadata is used as input. The "Execute Data Mapping" on
page628 task and the "Retrieve Items" on page646 task output metadata containing
information regarding records.
JSON
The Create Web Content task supports two types of JSON:
l A JSON object or an array of JSON objects representing records. If a value in a record
object is a string, it is considered to be a field value. If a value in a record object is a
JSON object, it is considered to be a nested table with detail records. For examples, see
"JSON string examples" on page92.
l A JSON Record Data List (see the REST API Cookbook and "JSON Record Data List
example" on page93). When the "Execute Data Mapping" on page628 or "Retrieve
Items" on page646 task is set to output Records in JSON, it outputs this kind of JSON
data.
If the input is JSON data, the task makes a call to the REST workflow/contentcreation/html/
{templateId} endpoint on the Connect Server. For more information see the REST API
Cookbook.
Note that only the first JSON object is processed, as the endpoint generates HTML output for a
single record.
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