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Viewing Actuate Files
This is inspired by my trawling of the referring ‘search terms’ part of my stats program for this site.
Unless you are a developer, attempting to view an Actuate file is probably a waste of effort. What you want to focus on rather is the output on the web. Here is a run down from first to last…
RODs are design files that are only openable using Actuate’s IDE. ROLs, libraries, are the same deal.
The IDE produces a BAS file from the ROD when compiling. It’s not clear to me if this is a requirement of the compile or a bonus for developers. In either case its a text file easily viewable in anything that displays text. You cannot compile this file, but you can painfully reconstitute a ROD using it.
ROXs are generated by compiling a ROD and are placed on the server for execution. They are not viewable.
ROIs are the result of the execution of a ROX (and some other less important files). In the old days we viewed these files directly in the web browser with a plug-in for te browser. These days Actuate has some bit of code ont he server that translates these into DHTML.
So, if you are a user, you are most likely going to view these on the web. Depending on your acess you will have options to download as text, PDF, or spreadsheet.
If you are a developer, it’s a weird search to be doing. Stop it!
