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Job: Retrieves one or more Jobs, including all their content items ready to be printed. Out-
put similar to the "Create Job" on page506 task.
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Job Set: Retrieves one or more Job Sets, including all their content items ready to be prin-
ted. Output similar to the "Create Job" on page506 task.
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Optimized: This option, available when the Entity to retrieve is a Record or a Record set, allows
to retrieve a greater number of records and handle large JSON files without memory issues. Note
that no duplicates are returned and that the order of the records returned is always ascending,
rather than the order in which they were requested.
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Retrieve by:
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Condition: Select entities based on one or more conditions, the value of a metadata field
for example.
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ID: Depending on the option selected under Entity to retrieve this is a Record ID, Record
Set ID, Content Item ID, Content Set ID, Job ID or Job Set ID.
IDs can be entered directly; when entering multiple IDs, put each on a new line. Altern-
atively, they can be passed via variables (see "Variable task properties" on page289), or
as a JSON array, e.g. [6001,6002,6003]. A JSON array may contain variables, e.g.
[%1, 75001].
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Conditions:
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Add a condition: Click to add a new condition line. This adds the line to the current con-
dition level, by default with an AND operator.
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Switch conditions: Click to swap two conditions on the same level, or two groups of con-
ditions.
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Delete the selected condition: Click to delete the currently selected conditions in the list.
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Clear the rule: Click to delete all rules in the list. Note: This cannot be undone.
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Import a rule: Click to open the Browse dialog and load a Rules file. This will load its rules
into the list.
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Export the rule: Click to open a Save dialog and save the Rules file to disk.
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Rule Viewer: Displays a text-based view of the condition using operators and parentheses.
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Output Type group:
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Metadata - IDs only: Select to only output minimal Metadata containing the entity IDs.
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Metadata: Select to output IDs as well as record details in the Metadata, useful for further
sorting and filtering of the Metadata.
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JSON: Select to output a JSON Record Data List (see "Output" on the previous page).
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