# List

Allows you to list all documents that are stored in IDOL Server or any of its databases.

NOTE: This is an administrative action that can be sent only by users that belong to an authorization role that allows the `Admin` standard role, or which enables the action explicitly. See Authorization Roles Configuration Parameters.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9000/action=List&Output=File&FileName=D:\temp\backup.xml

This action requests a list of all documents that IDOL Server stores. IDOL Server writes the list to the `backup.xml` file, which is created in the directory `D:\temp` on the IDOL Server host machine.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
DatabaseMatch | The database to list results from.
DontMatchID | Document IDs for documents that you do not want to list.
DontMatchReference | References for documents that you do not want to list.
LanguageType | The language type of the PrintFields that are not `ASCII` or `UTF-8`.
MatchEncoding | The encoding that a document must have to return.
MatchID | Document IDs for documents that you want to list.
MatchLanguage | The language that a document must have to return.
MatchLanguageType | The language type that a document must have to return.
MatchReference | A list of document references that can return.
MaxDate | The maximum creation date that a document can have to return.
MaxID | The highest document ID to list.
MaxPrintChars | The maximum number of characters to print in fields.
MaxResults | The maximum number of results to print.
MinDate | The minimum creation date that a document can have to return.
MinID | The minimum document ID to list.
OutputEncoding | The encoding to convert the results to.
Print | Defines the fields to display.
PrintFields | Overrides fields that display by default.
ReferenceField | Restricts the DontMatchReference and MatchReference parameters to the specified reference field.
StateDontMatchID | The state token of a group of documents to not list.
StateMatchID | The state token of a group of documents to list.
StateMatchOriginalSection | Whether to return only sections from a state token that were matched in the original query.
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.

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