Downloading a PDF with API or Powershell

Question

Hi, 
 Is there a way to download a published PDF using the version 25 APIs or the ISHRemote PowerShell library?

Dave De Meyer · Accepted Answer

Hi Rich 
 Looking into the code I see an FTITLE is required to generate a proper filename. 
 
 In the above example you had Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FTITLE' -Level "Lng" | however FTITLE is not an Lng but Logical field. So it should have been Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FTITLE' -Level "Logical" | 
 Don't know if c:\SDSL\export is a typo for SDL :) 
 
 Please log a GitHub issue to improve the error message and/or skip the title if not presented for the FileNameHelper class. 
 So my working code is 
 $ishSession = New-IshSession -WsBaseUrl " https://example.com/ISHWS/ " -PSCredential "Admin" $requestedMetadataRetrieve = Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHOUTPUTFORMATREF' -Level "Lng" | Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBLNGCOMBINATION' -Level "Lng" | Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBSTATUS' -Level "Lng" | Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBLISHER' -Level "Lng" | Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBSTARTDATE' -Level "Lng" | Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBENDDATE' -Level "Lng" | Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'VERSION' -Level "Version" | Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FTITLE' -Level "Logical" $metadataFilterRetrieve = Set-IshMetadataFilterField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBSTATUS' -Level 'Lng' -ValueType "Value" -FilterOperator "Equal" -Value "Released" $publicationOutputs = Find-IshPublicationOutput -IshSession $ishSession -StatusFilter "ishnostatusfilter" -MetadataFilter $metadataFilterRetrieve -RequestedMetadata $requestedMetadataRetrieve 
 [int] $mycounter = 1 foreach ( $pubItem in $publicationOutputs ) { $fileInfoArray = $publicationOutputs | Get-IshPublicationOutputData -IshSession $ishSession -FolderPath "c:\TEMP\" -Verbose -Debug if ($mycounter -eq 1) {break} }

Dave De Meyer · Answer

Yes there is... if you trigger the following PowerShell command: get-help get-ishpublicationoutputdata -examples 
You should see something like 
[...] 
NAME 
 Get-IshPublicationOutputData 
 
SYNOPSIS 
 The Get-IshPublicationOutputData cmdlet retrieves the data/blob of the publication output that are passed through the pipeline or 
 determined via provided parameters and saves them to the given Windows folder.

---------- EXAMPLE 1 ---------- 
 
 $ishSession = New-IshSession -WsBaseUrl " example.com/.../" -IshUserName "username" -IshUserPassword "userpassword" 
 $requestedMetadataRetrieve = Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHOUTPUTFORMATREF' -Level "Lng" | 
 Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBLNGCOMBINATION' -Level "Lng" | 
 Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBSTATUS' -Level "Lng" | 
 Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBLISHER' -Level "Lng" | 
 Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBSTARTDATE' -Level "Lng" | 
 Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBENDDATE' -Level "Lng" | 
 Set-IshRequestedMetadataField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'VERSION' -Level "Version" 
 $metadataFilterRetrieve = Set-IshMetadataFilterField -IshSession $ishSession -Name 'FISHPUBSTATUS' -Level 'Lng' -ValueType "Value" 
 -FilterOperator "Equal" -Value "Draft" 
 $publicationOutputs = Find-IshPublicationOutput -IshSession $ishSession -StatusFilter "ishnostatusfilter" -MetadataFilter 
 $metadataFilterRetrieve -RequestedMetadata $requestedMetadataRetrieve 
 $fileInfoArray = $publicationOutputs | Get-IshPublicationOutputData -IshSession $ishSession -FolderPath "c:	emp\export" 
 
 Downloading publication outputs 
[...] 
 
On your code below, your actual code could help.

Rich R · Answer

Great, thanks Dave! The error message is good, I should have caught it.

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