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======getEntities (IProcess, EntityIdAndName [])======

**Interface:** [[3500:0300:0315|IExecutionEngine]]
<code java>public IEntity [] getEntities(IProcessparent, EntityIdAndName [] entities)
throws AccessDeniedException, ExecutionException;</code>

This method retrieves the specified instances of the specified business objects. 

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**note**

any large binary attributes (of the Binary, Document and Picture types) are not retrieved by this method – the value of the corresponding attributes will be null. To retrieve the values of binary attributes use the ''[[ref:p_m:getbinarydata|getBinaryData]]'' method. . The getEntities method also retrieves only single references of the object. To retrieve all references of the object, use ''[[ref:p_m:getallreferences|getAllReferences]]'' method.</alert>

=====Parameters=====

|''entities''|the names and unique id’s of the business object instances to retrieve|

=====Returns=====
the retrieved instances of the business objects or null if the instances were not found.