# API View

In **API View**, you can execute API commands.

![The API View](/files/iq1cUsWH7n7Ds5lJG7wM)

 To execute an API command, do any of the following: 

* Press Enter
* Press F9 
* Press Shift+Enter 
* In the **Edit** menu, select **Run** 
* Click the **Run** button on the toolbar.

Double-click an element in the result log to copy the value to the clipboard. Press Ctrl when double-clicking to paste the value into the active input control at the current cursor position.

Click and hold the left mouse button for 1 second on any value representing a valid Documentum r\_object\_id to load the respective object into the Object Navigator (see [Object Navigator](/opentext-documentum-edition-24.2/object-navigator.md))

Certain API commands can be executed without a connected session (such as `getservermap`, `getdocbrokermap` or `connect`).

To open the API command help, click the **API Command Help** button ![](/files/thOfHFoFm4Mx61MVglu5) to the right of the **Command** field. You can then search for API commands or you can insert a command by double-clicking the command input field.

The context menu of the result log contains some additional functionality:

<table><thead><tr><th width="210">Menu item</th><th>What It Does</th><th data-hidden></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Dump Object</strong></td><td>Creates a dump of an <code>r_object_id</code>.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Open File</strong></td><td>Opens the file if a full filename is supplied in the log, for example after a <code>getfile</code> command.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Login as…</strong></td><td>Opens a new session with the login ticket data under the cursor <em>after a</em> <code>getlogin</code> command.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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