Viewing the Contents of a Design File

You can display the ASCII content of eaDirect ALF, DDF, or XML design files. HTM files display as a static HTML page.

Viewing the contents of a design file lets you determine

·   What it is designed to extract or present.

·   What modifications were made between different versions of a file (between version sets), such as changes to text, business logic, advertisements, etc.

To view the content of an eaDirect design file:

1.   Browse for the design file using Publisher.

2.   Click the name of the design file you want to view. eaDirect displays the Search Result screen listing the files in the version set.

3.   Click the name of the file you want to view. eaDirect displays the file contents.

Caution: Do NOT attempt to edit the XML DDF directly, or the resulting DDF may be unusable. If you receive the error message "Error in reading XML DDF, please see the Error Log File!" when publishing a DDF, the internal validation failed and the DDF may have been altered. See DDF_Error.log, where DDF is the name of your application, in the temporary folder on the application server for details.