View Component 25.4
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# ViewGetDocInfo

Returns information about a View action for a document, such as the document type, and the number of pages that result from the File Content Extraction HTML conversion.

You can specify all View action parameters, except for ViewUpload. The `ViewGetDocInfo` action returns information for the action that you specify.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9080/action=ViewGetDocInfo&NoACI=True&Reference=http://news.bbc.co.uk/summary.pdf

This action requests information about the document `summary.pdf` from the View component. View resolves the reference to a URL and returns information about the document.

## Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Reference | The reference of the document to convert.

## 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.
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.
HighlightAdjacentPagesOnly | Highlight only the current page and adjacent pages.
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 use OEM encryption for results.
OutputType | How to process the document content during conversion.
Page | The page of the document to display.
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.
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.
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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Version 25.4 | Last updated October 2025

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Product: Knowledge Discovery View Component 25.4

Topic Title: ViewGetDocInfo