# Retrieve Information from Objective ECM

To retrieve information from a single Objective ECM account, create a new fetch task by following these steps. The connector runs fetch tasks automatically, based on the schedule that is configured in the configuration file.

To create a new Fetch Task

1. Stop the connector.
2. Open the configuration file in a text editor.

3. In the `[FetchTasks]` section of the configuration file, specify the number of fetch tasks using the `Number` parameter. If you are configuring the first fetch task, type `Number=1`. If one or more fetch tasks have already been configured, increase the value of the `Number` parameter by one (1). Below the `Number` parameter, specify the names of the fetch tasks, starting from zero (0). For example:

       [FetchTasks]
       Number=1
       0=MyTask

4. Below the `[FetchTasks]` section, create a new TaskName section. The name of the section must match the name of the new fetch task. For example:

       [FetchTasks]
       Number=1
       0=MyTask

       [MyTask]

1. In the new section, set the following parameters required to connect and authenticate with Objective ECM:

   `ObjectiveURL` | The URL of the Objective instance that you want to extract documents from.
   `BasicUsername` | The user ID or login name to use to retrieve information from Objective ECM.
   `BasicPassword` | The password for the specified user.

   For example:

       [MyTask]
       ObjectiveURL=https://www.example.com/objective
       BasicUsername=JSmith
       BasicPassword=MyPass

2. Set any additional optional configuration parameters for the connector. For example, you can use `DocumentPathCantHaveRegex` and `DocumentPathMustHaveRegex` to control the paths that the connector crawls and ingests documents from.

   For more information about the configuration parameters that you can use to configure the connector, refer to the Objective Connector Reference.

3. Save and close the configuration file.

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