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Chrome/JSONView: How to invoke

Hi,
I just added JSONView to my Chrome extensions. it now shows on my list of extensions as follows...

...however, how do I activate it to view a .JSON file? Can it be used for local files (which I need) as well as a web page?

Thanks,
Steve

Russell Fox

I'm not familiar with that tool, but my guess is that if you right-click a json document and then "Open With --> Chrome", the tool will take over and validate it. If you choose to always open json with Chrome, you won't need to right-click in the future. Try that and post back if it works (and let me know if it's a worthwhile tool!).

Stephen Kairys

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Hi,
CHROME is not an available choice, and so far I can't find it when I search.
Thanks.

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Russell Fox

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Stephen Kairys

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OK, thanks.

Anyone else? :)

Stephen Kairys

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Further question:
Maybe the whole thing is transparent?

I ran a query someone gave me that produces JSON output. It displayed, apparently in Chrome in the format I needed (e.g. one field per line). So maybe there's nothing more to do, now that JSON viewer is installed on Chrome?

{

Name: Joe
Address: 1 EE Way
Zip: 99999
},
{
Name: Steve,
Address: 1234 Elm Street,
Zip: 12345
}

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Thanks,
Steve

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Stephen Kairys

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Thanks, everyone. So, I'm going to use the JSON viewer for web content, and figure out how to handle local files. Fortunately, for this project, it seems the data will be on web pages. :)

Thanks, and have a good week, everyone!

Steve