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retrieving generated document raw data

sdownie — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:00:01 GMT

After generating a document with a Generate Document task, and I need to retrieve the raw document afterwards. I know I can do this with the endpoint: /enterprise/content/{contentId}/raw endpoint, so I have a Script task following the generate document task that calls this endpoint. I keep getting

Re: retrieving generated document raw data

bassam_al-saror — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:28:12 GMT

It's probably an issue it timing. The generated document task runs asynchronously. So it might have not fully stored the document at the time you called it. Try adding a timer before the script task that will pause for few seconds.

Re: retrieving generated document raw data

sdownie — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:06:51 GMT

Apparently I just needed to check the "Async" checkbox in the script task, then the document generated asynchronously in the generate document task was available to be retrieved.