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title: "Servlet: ViewSettings (obsolete)"
source: https://dev.pageseeder.com/reference/version_5/servlets/com.pageseeder.ViewSettings.html
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last_updated: 2026-08-07T17:09:54+10:00
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# Servlet: ViewSettings

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Full name | com.pageseeder.ViewSettings |
| Version | 4.6000 |
| Since | 3.3000 |
| API Support | EXPERIMENTAL |
| Layout Support |  |
| Generated | 2017-12-18 |
| Output Types | application/xml |

## Description

> **Obsolete:** This servlet has been removed as of PageSeeder v6. Use Server properties service instead.

Displays PageSeeder settings (properties from configuration files).

In the output, each configuration file is an XML element with the list of properties as children.

### XML returned

The XML includes all settings from all the properties files.

```xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
  <wo-constant>...</wo-constant>
  <wo-jsessionid>...</wo-jsessionid>
  <wo-request>...</wo-request>
  <!-- for each setting of each properties file-->
  <setting name="[name]" type="[type]">[value]</setting>
  ...
</root>
```

The `@type` attribute is the name of the properties file and is one of `global`, `database`, `jpox`, `mime`, `template`, `groupdefault`, `group`,  `project`.

## HTTP Method: GET

### HTTP Parameters

| Name | Description | Required | Type |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| action | An action to run as well as loading the settings (the only accepted value is ‘reload’) | no | string |