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# View with Distributed Connector

In this method, the View server requests documents from the Distributed Connector. The Distributed Connector uses your individual connectors to retrieve documents from your repositories.

View with Distributed Connector

Advantages:

- This method allows you to view documents in all repositories where the connector supports the View action.

- You can use View server features such as caching, viewing embedded images, and highlighting.

Disadvantages:

- This method has a complicated setup.

- It requires more network transfer than other methods.

- This method uses `AUTN_IDENTIFIER` for viewing rather than `DREREFERENCE`, and requires the `UseReferencePrefix` action parameter. This might be incompatible with older user interfaces.

## Configuration

This method has the following setup requirements for indexing:

- Documents must have an `AUTN_IDENTIFIER`, set to a reference field in IDOL.

- Subfiles must use an identifier string in the form `AUTN_IDENTIFIER|x.y.z` where `x`, `y`, and `z` are the subfile indexes for each level. You build the subfile identifiers in Lua.

- Connectors must each set a unique `AUTN_GROUP` (controlled by the `ConnectorGroup` configuration parameter).

The method has the following setup requirements for viewing:

- The connector must support the `View` action.

- You must set the following parameters in the connectors:

  Parameter | Value | Notes
  --- | --- | ---
  `EnableViewServer` | `False` |
  `EnableExtraction` | `True` | You must also have filters present to view subfiles.
  `RegisterConnector` | `True` |
  `ConnectorGroup` |  | Must have a unique value for each connector.

- You must set the following parameters in the View server configuration file:

  Parameter | Value | Notes
  --- | --- | ---
  `ReferencePrefix` | `http://DCHost:DCPort/action=Viewidentifier=` | `DCHost` and `DCPort` are the host and port of the Distributed Connector.
  `ReencodeReference` | `True` |

- The `View` actions from the user interface must set `UseReferencePrefix` to `True`.

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