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# Retrieve Documents from Drupal

To retrieve information from a Drupal content management system, 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 configuration parameters:

   `DrupalHost` | The machine that hosts the Drupal content management system.
   `ViewUris` | A list of view URIs that the connector can use to list top-level entities. For more information, see Configure Drupal for the Connector.
   `BasicUsername` | The user name to use to authenticate with the Drupal API.
   `BasicPassword` | The password to use to authenticate with the Drupal API. For information about how to encrypt the password before entering it into the configuration file, see Encrypt Passwords.
   `EntitySections` | A comma-separated list of configuration file sections that define the entity types to retrieve.

2. Create a section for each of the entity types that you want to retrieve and set the following configuration parameters in each section:

   `Name` | The name of the entity type. For example, `node`, `media`, or `user`.
   `IdAttribute` | The path to, or name of, the attribute in the response from the Drupal REST API that contains the entity's unique ID number.
   `ContentAttribute` | The path to, or name of, the attribute in the response from the Drupal REST API that contains the entity's content. This information becomes the content of the ingested document.
   `ContentAttributeIsUrl` | If the JSON attribute identified by `ContentAttribute` contains a URL to a file, set this parameter to `true`.
   `ScourEntities` | The connector can follow links from the entities that it retrieves to entities of different types, and other entities of the same type. Set this parameter to a comma-separated list of the entity types to retrieve by following a link from an entity being processed. Any object in a JSON response containing only the attributes 'id', 'resource', and 'url' is treated as a link to another entity. The entity names you specify must relate to the 'resource' attribute in the response from the Drupal API. You can use the wildcard `*` to specify all entity types. You can also set this parameter in the TaskName section, to provide a default value for all of your entity definitions.

   For example:

       [MyTask]
       BasicUsername=user
       BasicPassword=password
       DrupalHost=https://drupal.example.com
       ViewUris=/views/all_content
       EntitySections=ENTITY_NODE,ENTITY_MEDIA,ENTITY_USER
       ScourEntities=*

       [ENTITY_NODE]
       Name=node
       IdAttribute=nid
       ContentAttribute=body/value

       [ENTITY_USER]
       Name=user
       IdAttribute=uid

       [ENTITY_MEDIA]
       Name=media
       IdAttribute=mid
       ContentAttribute=field_media_image/url
       ContentAttributeIsUrl=true

3. Save and close the configuration file.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Drupal Connector 25.4

Topic Title: Retrieve Documents from Drupal