# Load progress tracker from storage

**URL:** <https://forum.alumio.com/t/load-progress-tracker-from-storage/295>\
**Category:** Transformers\
**Tags:** data-transformer\
**Created:** [November 8, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.alumio.com/t/load-progress-tracker-from-storage/295 "2022-11-08T13:01:54Z")\
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### **Table Of Contents**

- Use case
- General description
- The different parts of the “Load progress tracker from storage” Transformer
- Video guide

### **Use case**

Using the **Load progress tracker from storage** Transformer it is possible to implement pagination within your integrations.  
It retrieves the result of the previous API call from a storage for usage.

### **General description**

The “Load progress tracker from storage” Transformer makes the data saved by the “Track progress in storage” Transformer available in the entity data.

This Transformer can be used to resume a data synchronization from the point it previously stopped. It provides access to the latest processed date and the identifiers available in the entity data.

### **The different parts of the “Load progress tracker from storage” Transformer**

- **Storage** (required field)  
This specifies the storage from which the tracked progress is read.

- **Path to date**  
This defines the path in the entity data where the tracked date will be saved. It supports placeholders.

- **Date format**  
This formats the date before it gets added in the entity data.

- **Path to entity identifier**  
This defines the path in the entity data where the tracked identifiers are to be saved. It supports placeholders.

- **Start date**  
This specifies the default date to use when there is no tracked date yet. It requires a year-month-day format.

 ![Screenshot 2024-12-19 at 10.55.33](https://alumio-forum.s3.dualstack.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/e/e23a36f3896d0c8a972d2476495447cd152460d2.png)

### **Video guide**

[![](https://alumio-forum.s3.dualstack.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/1X/c958e02a1c27f12321e9904e3623064bb3ee58dc.jpeg "Load progress tracker from storage") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TycxKRv_vGo)