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Task properties
General Tab
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Entity to retrieve: Use the drop-down to select which items to retrieve.
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Record: Retrieves one or more Records, whether or not they are part of a Record Set. Out-
put similar to the "Execute Data Mapping" on page522 task.
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Record Set: Retrieves one or more Record Sets, including all their records. Output similar
to the "Execute Data Mapping" on page522 task.
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Content Item: Retrieves one or more Content Items, whether or not they are part of a Con-
tent Set. Output similar to the "Create Print Content" on page513 or "Create Web Content"
on page516 tasks.
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Content Set: Retrieves one or more Content Sets, including all their content items. Output
similar to the "Create Print Content" on page513 task.
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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504 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504 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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