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# View

Accesses the content of a document in a repository, formats it as HTML, then returns the HTML for display.

You must set one of Reference and ViewUpload to specify the file that you want to view. If you use ViewUpload, you must send the `View` action as a POST request. If you send the `View`action to a Distributed Action Handler (DAH) set up to distribute `View` requests by reference, DAH uses the Reference parameter for distribution, even if you upload a file with ViewUpload.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9000/action=View&NoACI=True&Reference=http://news.bbc.co.uk/summary.pdf

This action requests the document `summary.pdf` from IDOL Server. IDOL Server resolves the reference to a URL, downloads the content, reformats it as HTML, and returns the HTML page.

## Required Parameters

You must set one of the following parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Reference | The reference of the document to convert.
ViewUpload | The multipart/form-data upload of the file that you want to view.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Boolean | Whether to use phrases and query text for highlighting.
ConversionTimeoutSeconds | The maximum number of seconds for a HTML conversion.
Cookie | A cookie to forward.
DeleteOriginal | Whether to delete the original document after converting it.
DownloadURLTimeout | The number of seconds to wait when downloading a URL.
EmbedImages | Whether to embed images in HTML output.
EndTag | The tag to use to mark the end of a highlighted term. If you set MultiHighlight to `True`, you must set the StartTag and EndTag for each link term.
Highlight | The mode to use for highlighting.
HighlightTagTerm | Adds an attribute to the StartTag to indicate the term that is highlighted.
IgnoreCache | Whether to convert the document again, even if it exists in the cache.
LanguageType | The language type of the Links parameter.
Links | Terms to highlight.
MultiHighlight | Highlight multiple link terms with different HTML tags. If you set MultiHighlight to `True`, you must set the StartTag and EndTag for each link term.
NoACI | Whether to format the results for display in a Web browser.
OEMEncryption | Whether to OEM encrypt results.
OriginalBaseURL | Whether to rewrite hyperlinks in the output document as IDOL actions.
OutputType | How to process the document content during conversion.
Page | The page of the document to display.
SecurityInfo | The security information for the user that sends the request.
StartTag | The tag to use to mark the beginning of a highlighted term. If you set MultiHighlight to `True`, you must set the StartTag and EndTag for each link term.
StripScript | Removes script tags and their contents from documents.
UrlPrefix | The prefix to apply to links to subdocuments.
UseReferencePrefix | Whether to use the configured ReferencePrefix.
ViewTemplate | The template to use when converting the document content to HTML.

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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