The Get All Properties action is a special action of an element type that returns all properties of a specific element (or list of elements). Use it to ensure that all required element properties are available before any other action executes on the element.
The main purpose of this action is to save performance when working with element lists. It often requires one service to receive a list of elements with a few basic properties, and a second service to retrieve all properties of a specific element. Using both services in a single “Get Element List” action would often cause an immense I/O overhead. As a result, the Get All Properties action executes automatically before any other action executes on an element. Once the Get All Properties action successfully executes, it does not execute automatically again, but you can execute it manually from the element’s context menu.
To update the element’s properties, the action contains at least one tool with UPDATE or TOOL-DEFINED resource processing. See Tool-defined resource operations for more information.
If you allow multi-selections in the model, it is recommend you support mass processing for the Get All Properties action. If executed automatically, the Workflow Manager only adds elements to the mass processing context that require updates to their properties. See Mass processing for more information.
In some scenarios, the Get All Properties action returns only missing property values. This is not recommended, since the action can then not be used to refresh elements.