# Generic document viewer

The Generic Document Viewer can display documents from any database, it supports most document formats and image formats.

### Basic data

**Internal name** - unique string to identify this portlet.\
**Portlet title** - title of the portlet, does not have to be unique.\
 

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### Auto refresh

 Auto Refresh enables the portlet to refresh the data every SS:second. 

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### Query configuration

Query Configuration enables the portlet to execute specified queries towards the chosen database connector.

* **Database connector** - Select which connector that the query will execute against.
* **Your query** - Text field where queries can be written
* **Data column name** - Select in which column the document data is stored.
* **Mime type column name** - Select in which column the mime type of the document is stored.
* **File name column** -Instead of mime type column name, choose this for formats such as ".jpg, .gif, .txt".
* **Default mime type** - Also an alternative if all documents share the same mime type one can define it here.

**Mime types are defined in the following format:** e.g *"application/pdf"* 

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### Commands

Commands enables the portlet to listen for events sent by other portlets to execute specified commands. **The portlet will listen to the following commands**

* onRefresh
* onRowSelected
* onGenericTreeNodeSelection

**The portlet will listen to the following portlets** *Specify which portlet the commands above will trigger from*. The portlets that appears will be shown with their unique internal name. 

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