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# GetContent

Allows you to display the content of one or more specified documents or document sections.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9000/action=GetContent&ID=10

This action uses port `9000` to send a request for the content of the document with the ID 10 to IDOL Content Component, which is located on a machine with the IP address `12.3.4.56`.

## Parameters

Parameter | Description | Required
--- | --- | ---
Boolean | The format of the terms in the Links parameter. |
Characters | The number of characters that a summary can contain. |
DatabaseMatch | The database to retrieve results from. |
EndTag | The end HTML tag to apply to highlighted terms. |
FieldRecurse | Returns the chain of values in a document ReferenceMemoryMappedType field. |
FieldRestriction | Restricts a query to specified fields. | See Comments
HardFieldRestriction | Whether to use only the fields that you list in the FieldRestriction parameter for matching in the Text and FieldText parameters. | See Comments
Highlight | Whether to highlight link terms or sentences in the results. |
HighlightTagTerm | Adds an attribute to the StartTag to indicate the term that is highlighted. |
ID | The ID of the documents to return. | See Comments
IgnoreSpecials | Treat special characters as normal characters in query syntax. | See Comments
LanguageType | The language type of the terms. |
Links | The terms to highlight. |
MatchAllTerms | Return only results that match all terms in a query. | See Comments
MaxPrintChars | The maximum number of terms to print in fields. |
OutputEncoding | The encoding to convert the results to. |
Print | The option to use to determine the fields to display. |
PrintEngine | Whether to display information about the DAH child servers that results come from. |
PrintFields | The fields to display in the results documents. |
Reference | The references of documents to return. |
ReferenceField | The reference field that contains the references listed for Reference. | See Comments
SecurityInfo | The security details. |
Sentences | The number of sentences that the summary can contain. |
StartTag | The opening HTML tag to apply to highlighted terms. |
StateID | A state token that specifies the documents to return. | See Comments
Stemming | Whether to disable stemming so that only documents that contain exact matches of query terms can return as results. | See Comments
Summary | The type of summary to return with the document. |
Synchronous | Whether to run the action synchronously or asynchronously. |
XMLMeta | Whether to return additional metadata for each result. |

This action accepts the following standard ACI action parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
ActionID | A string to use to identify an ACI action.
EncryptResponse | Encrypt the output.
FileName | The file to write output to.
ForceTemplateRefresh | Forces the server to load the template from disk.
Output | Writes output to a file.
ResponseFormat | The format of the action output.
Template | The template to use for the action output.
TemplateParamCSVs | A list of variables to use for the specified template.

## Comments

You must set one of the following parameters or parameter combinations:

- ID

- Reference

- ID and Reference

To use the following query parameters, you must set the `Boolean` parameter to `True`:

- FieldRestriction

- HardFieldRestriction

- IgnoreSpecials

- MatchAllTerms

- Stemming

- case sensitive term operator (~Term)

Note: If you use a Distributed Action Handler (DAH) to distribute the `GetContent` action, you cannot use any parameters that specify document IDs. Use parameters that identify documents by their reference instead.

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