Download IDM document using workflow

Hello,

in my current use case I have a workflow and I'd like to download a document using the IDM ION API.

The following API has been mentioned frequently in the forum and indeed, when calling it via Swagger, Postman, etc I can successfully retrieve the document's binary data:

GET IDM/api/items/{pid}/resource/stream

The problem is that its response content type (application/octet-stream) doesn't seem to be supported by the "Output Parameters" tab in the ION API block in my workflow:

which also means I can't map the body of the response into any workflow parameter (I can only map the headers or the request status):

Is there any way around this? Is it just not possible to download document data inside a workflow?

I believe my use case is different to the one described in other questions (e.g https://community.infor.com/infor-ming-le/f/support/14754/possibility-to-download-xmls-from-idm-in-multitenant-cloud-env) as I'm not using a connection point, but a block inside a workflow.

Thank you,

Federico

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Federico,

workflow activities don't support streaming, but you call an API in the workflow to have the document emailed using the IDM POST /email api

You really only need the pid and an email address. Or you can provide a link/url to the document in the activity (task or notification).

David

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Hi David, thank you for confirming that and providing an alternative!

Sadly the email wouldn't really work in this use case: the end goal would be to attach the downloaded document to a Ming.le task and my reasoning was that i'd have to get a hold of it first. I've already gone the URL / Drill Back route but the end user requirement is specifically to have the document as an attachment.

I've asked a more specific question here, maybe there's a way to accomplish it without actually having to get a hold of the document's data stream first?

community.infor.com/.../workflow-retrieve-a-document-from-idm-and-attach-it-to-a-task

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Question seems to have been answered here. community.infor.com/.../76011

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