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Miscellaneous Tab
The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in the Pro-
cess area.
Retrieve Items
The Retrieve Items Action task locates and extracts items from the OL Connect Database so they
can be used with further tasks. The items are retrieved using a set of conditions working together.
Since this task can retrieve items at any level, it can be used to generate Metadata (see "Metadata" on
page66) or JSON data used in multiple tasks.
Input
The task requires no input file, but any input information such as Metadata, Job Info variables, a data
file or a JSON array can be used to specify which items to retrieve.
Processing
The task requests the items on the OL Connect Server using the conditions set in the task properties.
Only the condition information and the returned Metadata or JSON are exchanged.
Note that the order in which the requested items are returned cannot be guaranteed.
Output
The task outputs either Metadata that is equivalent to the output of the appropriate task that would nor-
mally create the items, or a JSON Record Data List (see the REST API Cookbook and "JSON Record
Data List example" on page79), or an array of simple JSON objects that - unlike a JSON Record Data
List - do not have information about the data type of fields.
Note: Date/time values are stored in the OLConnect database as Unix timestamps, i.e. the total
number of seconds from the starting time of UTC (Universal Time, Coordinated) to the current
time (with zero time zone offset). For instance: 1675950179.
In JSON output of this task, dates are represented the same way.
In the Metadata, however, date/time values are represented in the following format: YYYY-MM-
DDTHH:MM:SSZ.
Note: The result of a Retrieve Items task can be used with the "Create Job" on page504 task if it
is a Content Item or Content Set, but it cannot be used in combination with a Job Preset.
Content Creation tasks accept Metadata as well as JSON data as input.
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